ESPN NBA Draft analyst Jonathan Givony
The Woj Pod
ESPN
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🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. Welcome into a special pre-draft, pro-day post-NBA draft combine edition of the WojPod. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Adrian Hortgenowski. This is, of course, Jonathan Gavoni, ESPN's NBA draft analyst. |
| 0:18.2 | We are both out here in Los Angeles after a week in Chicago. The league's |
| 0:23.5 | pro days out here this week, Jonathan, getting to see a lot of prospects up close. We'll get to a |
| 0:29.8 | bunch of them and a bunch of the important storylines and a lot of the uncertainty around this |
| 0:34.9 | draft, which is less than a month away now. |
| 0:40.4 | But let's get and start with the one certainty. |
| 0:46.3 | And that's Victor Wimbanyama, who as we know now, will go number one to the San Antonio Spurs. |
| 0:46.8 | And you and I both over the last several days have seen the Spurs officials kind of, I don't |
| 0:52.5 | want to say strutting around, but walking, I think part excitedly, part relieved that they've got Wimbayama, and now they are starting the process of preparing for what is really an unprecedented player in this draft. |
| 1:08.1 | They have a new 50-acre practice facility, coincidentally opening up in August |
| 1:13.3 | training center. The one thing, Jonathan, when people talk about Victor and any of the |
| 1:21.1 | questions, he has size, he has skill, he has great feel, great maturity. He doesn't have great strength yet. |
| 1:30.6 | And there's questions at 7 foot 5 about his body, how it will hold up. We have seen players of that |
| 1:36.9 | size who have had issues physically. What is different about Victor and how he has prepared his body that might alleviate some of those |
| 1:47.4 | concerns that teams had and that the Spurs will certainly be real cognizant of as they start his |
| 1:54.0 | development? Well, Wos, Victor was identified from a very early age as the likely number one pick in the draft. |
| 2:02.4 | Already when he was 15 years old, it felt like it was trending in that direction. |
| 2:06.6 | And he surrounded himself with a team of people that would help him accomplish that dream. |
| 2:13.9 | And part of it was having the right training staff, having the right medical people, |
| 2:19.4 | you know, constantly getting scans and, you know, flying out to different locations to meet |
| 2:25.5 | with specialists and make sure that that he's on track, that he is going to be able to stay healthy, |
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