Basketball: Number one draft pick Victor Wembanyama has dropped a career high thirty eight points as the Spurs defeated the Suns for a second time in a week.
Just seven games into his professional career, Victor Wembanyama is doing unprecedented things — and making serious noise around the NBA.
The numbers themselves are off the charts for a rookie, though his impact has gone well beyond the box score even if there have been some growing pains while he adjusts to the huge step up to the game’s premier league against star-studded opposition.In fact, he’s already hadin a contest the Spurs sensation took over in the clutch and outperformed the superstar duo.
You only had to see the near 7-foot Durant playing on Wembanyama to get a proper grasp of the spindly rookie’s freakish size. Direct comparisons aside, US sports media personality Colin Cowherd said Wembanyama is a once-in-a-generation level pure talent. Wembanyama is already setting records for one of the game’s most successful ever franchises, and even the league at large.
ESPN already had Wembanyama ranked the third-best player aged under 25 behind only Luka Doncic and Anthony Edwards and ahead of the likes of Tyrese Haliburton, Ja Morant and Zion Williamson.While the young gun has been lauded for his defensive impact including remarkably blocking shots no other NBA players are capable of, a graphic on NBA Today showed his offensive versatility and incredible shooting touch all over the floor and beyond the arc.
“Because the first game of the year Victor Wembanyama played, his teammates weren’t really passing him the ball the way we were all excited and expected. If you watched last night’s game they were feeding him the ball. “This dude is doing stuff that’s crazy. I honestly think he could be averaging in the mid-to-high 20s already.
“Every day he would do two, three or fours things you have never quite seen anybody quite do on a basketball court. People didn’t want to miss practice and be doing something else in the building, because they were seeing something they had never seen before.
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