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HENDERSON, Nev. — There is nothing more amazing than an event that not only lives up to the hype, but also exceeds it.
We all had high hopes for this week’s Battle Royale in the Las Vegas suburbs between the likely top two picks in the 2023 NBA draft, French big man Victor Wembanyama and G League Elite guard Scoot Henderson. But nothing could have prepared us for the show we got from both players, and in particular for the breathtaking performance by Wembanyama on Thursday.
Over the two games, Wembanyama scored 73 points, shot 9 of 18 on 3-pointers, drew 28 free throws, blocked nine shots … and, less commented upon, only committed three turnovers. Beyond that, It wasn’t even the statistical accumulation that was so amazing, but the breathtaking way in which he accomplished it.
Put simply, we have never seen anything like this before. Wembanyama is a basketball evolution all his own, a unicorn even among unicorns, the unholy melding of the best traits of Ralph Sampson,Watch here as he does a completely normal thing for a 7-foot-4 player, calling for a screen as he runs pick-and-roll , getting a guard switched on to him, and then, instead of trying to bulldoze the smaller player toward the rim, pulling up from the hashmark next to the sideline to splash in a 3-pointer.
Or watch here, as he starts at the 3-point line, attacks with his weaker left hand, does a letter-perfect imitation of Hakeem Olajuwon’s Dream Shake and makes a fading baseline jumper over a helpless defender.
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