ANDhe commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver, has not yet pronounced his name in Brooklyn as number 1 in the Draft. He is still not a figure, with all the law, of the best league in the world. But Victor Wembanyama is the great mass phenomenon of world basketball from the actuality. A star that dazzles from New York, counts the hours to be the benchmark for the San Antonio Spurs and lead the new generation.
Without stepping on a field, without putting on a shirt or a cap, Wembanyama is the world star. “San Antonio hasn’t seen someone like that in its history. It’s still not a ‘spur’but his figure is totally different from the ones with the retired shirts on the roof of the AT&T Center,” they tell the ‘San Antonio Express News’, a large newspaper in the Texan city.
They are right. With observing and taking a tour of the last myths of the Spurs there is a big difference. Tim Duncan or Kawhi Leonard were never friends with the media and fame. David Robinson was more skilled with the microphone, but far from the French prodigy. “I don’t like to do things half way. I want to be the best, on and off the pitch,” says Wembanyama.
I don’t like doing things in half, I want to be the best on and off the pitch
In France, your nation, the yardstick is also very high, logically. Headlines like L’Equipe or Le Figaro open their covers with ‘Wemby’. They have followed him every day, they see before them the domain of a Gaul. “The flashing ascension of a giant”, they say. They join the line of opinion of the player himself, who accepts the spotlight. “For these things I wear the 1”, remarks Victor.
Wembanyama says goodbye to France with ace plays
Basketball enters the new era. Wembanyama goes to Yankee Stadium and makes the honor pitch, goes on television, speaks in all the media. He is not a quiet star. “I’m immune to all that stuff,” she says of the pressure. ‘Wemby’ ushers in the new era… and his name has yet to be spoken by Adam Silver. When it happens…
