The best odds of winning tonight's Wembanyama sweepstakes belong to the Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs, who each have a 14 per cent chance after finishing with the three worst regular-season records. No one has ever seen anyone as tall as he is but as fluid and as graceful as he is out on the floor." "Everybody's been a unicorn over the last few years, but he's more like an alien. "He's like a 2K create-a-player… cheat code-type vibes." LeBron invoked mythical creatures. Durant, who might be considered the inspiration for Wembanyama's game, called the teenager "inspiring." Steph Curry compared him to a video-game character. Some of the sport's greatest players can hardly believe what they see.
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Wembanyama scored 37 points with seven 3-pointers and five blocked shots in the first game before deploying his full arsenal of inside-the-arc moves to score 36 in the next one - all with the pressure of NBA scouts, executives and players eyeing him from courtside.
Wembanyama put his extraterrestrial array of skills on display last fall in Las Vegas, where his French-league club Metropolitans 92 played a pair of exhibition games against the NBA's G League Ignite - a developmental team featuring guard Scoot Henderson, expected to go No. "Kevin Durant crossed with Rudy Gobert," is how the Ringer's Kevin O'Connor described him, implying Wembanyama is a mix between one of the most unstoppable scorers in NBA history and a three-time Defensive Player of the Year. Wembanyama can handle the ball, create shots for himself and his teammates, shoot threes from anywhere, hit stepbacks and throw down highlight-reel dunks. What really sets this big man apart, though, is that he plays offence like a guard. Like a traditional centre, Wembanyama's height (and eight-foot wingspan) create nightmares for opposing scorers as he can block or alter their shots without even leaving his feet.
But he's listed between 7-foot-3 and 7-foot-5, which would make him one of the tallest players in the NBA. Wembanyama's exact height remains something of a mystery after he didn't attend the draft combine.
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The big (and we do mean big) prize is Victor Wembanyama, the 19-year-old French phenom who many are calling the best basketball prospect since LeBron James went pro two decades ago. Stay up to speed on what's happening in sports by subscribing here.Įight days after Chicago's NHL team won the right to select Connor Bedard, another teenage phenom touted as a generational talent is up for grabs in tonight's NBA draft lottery. This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports' daily email newsletter.
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