The NBA draft 2023 obtained underway in New York with San Antonio Spurs choosing French phenom Victor Wembanyama as its first choose on Friday.
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Wembanyama, 19, is taken into account probably the most coveted draft prospect since LeBron James in 2003.
“This is accomplishing something that I have been dreaming of my whole life,” Wembanyama stated on ESPN’s broadcast. “Hearing that sentence from (NBA commissioner) Adam Silver, I’ve dreamed of it so much that I have to cry, man.”
Listed at 7-foot-4, Wembanyama is anticipated to be a right away difference-maker within the NBA. He has robust ground play, likes to shoot from exterior and is efficient within the inside.
Wembanyama averaged 20.6 factors, 10.1 rebounds, 3.0 blocked photographs and a pair of.5 assists in 44 video games this season for the Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 this season.
San Antonio earned the proper to choose No. 1 by successful final month’s NBA draft lottery.
The Spurs have received 5 NBA titles beneath coach Gregg Popovich and have beforehand hit the No. 1 total draft choose jackpot twice with the choices of David Robinson (1987) and Tim Duncan (1997).
Both gamers, together with Popovich, are members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
