The hype for Victor Wembanyama's debut didn't match reality on Friday in Las Vegas. But he still provided some moments of awe. MikeVorkunov on the No. 1 pick's first Summer League outing.
sat on the Thomas & Mack Center floor, in the paint under his own rim, watching the ball go the other way. He rose slowly, then shook his head.
It was that kind of night, when nothing was right, when nothing felt fulfilling. Here was the most highly anticipated basketball prospect in a generation, with 19,000 sets of eyes here following his every move, from tunnel to bench to court to tunnel again, all with expectations that could hardly meet reality.uniform, they didn’t. Victor Wembanyama, a 7-foot-3 comic book character of a basketball player, was human. He was even uninteresting.
And it will be OK. Wembanyama was not good, and that happens sometimes. This was the night that revealed that the myth of Wembanyama — the one that had blown up around him, towering over the person and player himself as scouting reports gushed and the basketball media built him up — can hardly match what we will see of him. There was no picture-perfect debut on national television.
“Honestly, I didn’t really know what I was doing on the court tonight,” he said afterward. “But getting ready for the next games. The important thing is to be ready for next season.” There is very little to be taken from Wembanyama’s Las Vegas Summer League debut. He had stats and they were not pretty: nine points on 2-of-13 shooting from the field, though he showcased his rim protection with five blocks. But it doesn’t really matter what they were. His team won, sure, and he spoke of the importance of that, but no one will remember. He had his issues with the Charlotte Hornets’ physicality.
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