Is Victor Wembanyama the Best NBA Prospect Ever? (Seriously)

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Meet the NBA Draft prospect that is the reason for a “race to the bottom like we’ve never seen,” as one NBA GM told Adrian Wojnarowski. Victor Wembanyama is a 7’4 18-year old from France, currently playing for Metropolitans 92…and did we mention that he’s 7’4? Forget about a unicorn, this guy is an alien, something we have never seen before. There is so much hype around Wembanyama, that some have said that if he was in the same class as LeBron James, LeBron would be the second pick. ESPN Draft analyst Jonathan Givony isn’t one for gushing and hyperbole when it comes to prospects, but even he is all-in on Wembanyama…and he tells us why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, John, then tell me what it was like to be there.
0:07.9	Tell me what it was like inside the arena, inside this moment that I am so jealous you got
0:13.4	to experience firsthand.
0:16.7	Everybody was just holding their breath.
0:18.9	We were just afraid that if you like move the wrong way, you might like somehow jinks
0:23.6	it and screw it off and this thing won't actually happen.
0:26.7	Like it's so rare to get these.
0:29.0	You should know that John to the Gavoni is ESPN's NBA draft guru.
0:33.0	He is the founder of Draft Express.
0:34.9	He is someone who has been scouting prospects for two decades now.
0:39.2	But last week in Vegas, he witnessed something that he had never seen before.
0:46.3	Until it actually tipped off, you know, even like during the game, I was like, am I really
0:50.4	watching this?
0:51.4	This is unbelievable.
0:52.4	John was calling for it on a block against Apple's Keating, hanging, showing all the moves.
0:59.3	John was there to watch an 18-year-old named Victor Wembañamo, whose team had traveled
1:04.0	all the way from his native France to Las Vegas, where he was competing against other top
1:09.2	shelf NBA prospects last week.
1:18.8	After the first game, I was just walking into the concourse and I ran into a president of
1:25.4	an NBA team who has a very high interest level in Victor.
1:29.3	I'm usually a very stoic guy.
1:31.9	You really can't get anything out of him normally.
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