Photo: San Antonio Spurs/Twitter screenshot Former NBA player Drew Gooden sees a bright future for Victor Wembanyama, the top pick of this year’s NBA Draft by the San Antonio Spurs. In a recent interview on Scoop B Selects with Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson, Gooden drew parallels between Wembanyama and basketball legend Tim Duncan, suggesting that
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The walls around Victor Wembanyama, as he sat for a news conference Friday night at the Thomas and Mack Center, were plastered with images of past winners of the Las Vegas Summer League tournament. There were N.B.A. stars who played there in the early days of their careers and a photo of LeBron James from
The singer Britney Spears asked for an apology on Thursday after accusing a member of a star N.B.A. player’s security detail of striking her in the face outside a Las Vegas restaurant when she tried to greet the player, Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs. In a tweet about the encounter, Spears did not
Photo: San Antonio Spurs/Twitter Britney Spears and the San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama have critically different accounts of what went down before his security guard slapped her, and video of the incident, obtained by TMZ, supports Britney’s version:
Mark Burnett can’t get Victor Wembanyama out of his head. Well, he could, but it would be like taking a knife to the “Mona Lisa.” Burnett, a San Antonio Spurs superfan, had Joe Barajas, a well-known local barber, shear Wembanyama’s likeness into the side of his head just over a week ago. He, like pretty
Photo: San Antonio Spurs/Twitter The San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich shared some of his thoughts on coaching a prospect like Victor Wembanyama: “He’s not LeBron, or Tim, or Kobe, or anybody else, he’s Victor and that’s who we want him to be … I’m very excited. You don’t want me to jump up
Victor Wembanyama had grown up in the suburbs of Paris dreaming about this moment since he was 12 years old. He had long felt as though he was different from everyone else, as though he could be great — and not just in basketball. He’d spent the past several months, and even the last few
It was a rather unremarkable Tuesday at Central Park West and Columbus Circle. Vendors sold hot dogs, coffee and overpriced bottled water nearby. A light breeze rustled the sycamore branches hanging over a bicycle rental kiosk filled with neat rows of mint green helmets. Then, at 4:41 p.m., a black Mercedes van crept through the
Ahead of Tuesday's NBA draft lottery, veteran coach Vincent Collet has spent the past season honing the most prized prospect since LeBron James.
The NBA world has been abuzz about 7-foot-4 prospect Victor Wembanyama’s eye-opening performance in two exhibition games earlier this week, and players on the Knicks certainly took notice of the projected No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 draft. The 18-year-old French wunderkind — with a point guard’s handle, a deft outside shooting touch and
For about a month after he was sidelined with a torn ligament in his right elbow, Paul George could do nothing but wait. He had been through serious injuries before, but the waiting process for this one, in December, was new to him. No activity for a few weeks. He couldn’t get back on the