Teen prodigy Wembanyama MVP in French league’s All-Star game

Basketball
Published 30.12.2022
Teen prodigy Wembanyama MVP in French league’s All-Star game

French teen prodigy Victor Wembanyama embellished his fast-growing fame when he grew to become the youngest MVP within the French league’s All-Star recreation.

The 18-year-old Wembanyama completed with 27 factors, 12 rebounds, and 4 assists on Thursday night time because the All-Star France workforce received 136-128 towards the All-Star World workforce — an annual contest between French and non-French gamers within the French league’s LNB.

The 7-foot-3 Wembanyama is taken into account the doubtless prime decide within the 2023 NBA draft subsequent June and is a near-certainty to be the primary top-five draft decide from France.

In the 2 months since his jaw-dropping performances in two exhibition video games in Las Vegas, “Wembamania” has swept France with sold-out video games every time he performs for Paris-based Metropolitans 92.

Wembanyama is main the French league with averages of twenty-two.9 factors and 9.6 rebounds per recreation. And these are his ultimate numbers as an 18-year-old. He turns 19 on January 4, 2023.

He hit a purple patch from early November to early December with a streak of 4 consecutive 30-or-more-point video games.

Wembanyama’s worldwide profession bought off to begin, and he’s 2-0 with Olympic silver medalist France, with 39 factors scored and 13 rebounds in these two video games.

France performs Lithuania and the Czech Republic in February.