Four years ago, Nicolas Batum was training for the national team on the outskirts of Paris when he was about to leave the gym when a tall guy caught his attention and he had to stop.
The 14-year-old young player amazes Batum, because not only is he 6 feet 11 inches tall, but he can also run freely on the pitch with excellent coordination, block opponents with ease and freehand, dominate the attack and complete it more and more. several times brilliant slam dunk.
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At that moment, Batum decided to take the initiative to greet him instead of waiting for the other person to show up. Eventually, he got his wish to know the name of this mysterious teenager: Victor Wembanyama.
“When I saw him, I was blown away and thought, ‘Wait, show me how this guy plays,’ and I started watching him from the sidelines,” Batum recalls. “Soon after, I called Tony Parker and told him ‘we have to get this guy, Victor Wembanyama’ and I started telling people how good he was.”
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Since then, Batum has never hidden his love for Wembanyama, and each person will talk about how they met the talented guy and how talented and full of potential he is, even if the other party is just a little bit interested, he. Even gushing.
“It’s been four years now,” Batum said with a smile. “People finally noticed this and started listening to my story.”
That’s right, after two warm-up matches against the G-League, all of the United States is going crazy for Wembanyama, it seems that only “choice # 1” and “choice # 1” are worthy of this genius from France, and the glitz is comparable to LeBron The moment James and Tim Duncan announced their participation in the NBA.
This alone was enough to keep Batum happy for years.
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In his first public appearance in the United States, Wembanyama faced Ignite, a young G League team.
Ignite has nurtured up-and-coming stars like Jonathan Kuminga, Jalen Green, etc., and there are draft stars like Scoot Henderson on the team as well, which can be said to be the most suitable touchstone for Wembanyama.
In the end, Wembanyama truly lived up to expectations, displaying his all-round skills in front of more than 100 scouts, not only scoring 30 points in two consecutive games, but also with a splendid and practical hot pot show and a rain of three points, which made Sam Presti and Trajan Langdon even more. Make sure: if the team draws pick number 1 next year, it has to be used on this guy.
Not only were the Thunder and Pelicans GMs in attendance that day, but an unnamed general manager told Andscape that although Wembanyama only weighs about 210 pounds, this is only temporary and its “Spider-Man” bamboo stature. will continue. Grew up, like Anthony Davis, the No. 1 pick in 2012, and Joel Embiid, the No. 1 pick in 2014, and even transformed into a great player who can represent “a generation”.
“Victor’s stature is rare, remembers Lew Alcindor and Ralph Sampson,” added the unnamed executive. “His height, size and technique are unmatched. He has everything (a good player should have). As for how much he can grow, it depends on his professional attitude.”
Ralph SansoneUp to 224cm tall, in the Rockets’ 80s, he formed a promising “Twin Towers” with “African King” Hakeem Olajuwon, and even went all the way to the championship game, facing prosperous Celtic head-on.
As for Lew Alcindor, he’s a legendary superstar of a generation, but he needs to change his name to be more familiar. That’s right, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, famous for his sky-hook stunt, announced his retirement at the age of 42. he has 5 championship rings withNBA scoring titlea legend within a legend.
As a next-generation insider who has not yet entered the NBA but reminds senior basketball players of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wembanyama’s uniqueness is evident and makes people look forward to its limitless bright future – ah, you finally get his The team, I don’t know how lucky he’ll be? Probably like Tim Duncan and the Spurs.
Several members of the French national team, such as Batum, Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier, take care of their younger brother Victor Wembanyama, but if we really want to talk about the basketball road of Bole of Wembanyama, we must mention Bouna Ndiaye, who is also his current broker. .
For several years, Ndiaye was constantly reminded to “go and see de Fautereau’s son play”, but as the boy was young at the time, he never put it into practice.
As to who is this de Fautereau? Her full name is Elodie de Fautereau, and she is 6 feet 2 inches tall.She is Victor Wembanyama’s mother and she once served as Ndiaye’s son’s basketball coach, so the two have some crossovers.
