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Wembanyama Makes Waves

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4.48.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Mina Kimes and Pablo Torre come together to discuss the biggest topics in sports including if it is okay to have high expectations for Victor Wembanyama’s summer league debut tonight, if they would trade Shohei Ohtani after injuries ravaged the Angels roster, and if the Mets should be buyers at the trade deadline with their 5-straight wins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Parting the interruption, but I'm Pablo Chorey, and with Mike and Tony off, I am a little afraid that people are gonna see me as like the captain of the BT.

0:10.0

How many times, in Pablo, don't worry, no one sees you as a captain.

0:15.0

Okay, so first off, I was a captain of my Lincoln Douglas debate team in high school, so, factually inaccurate by you.

0:25.0

They saw me as a captain.

0:26.0

Still today, me.

0:27.0

Shatter my stereotypes here, Pablo, out the game.

0:30.0

Yes.

0:31.0

Bar City debate is a sport welcome to PTI incidentally with Mike and Tony off.

0:36.0

I am joined by my, yes, great friend, but also mortal enemy from NFL live, mean in cops.

0:46.0

There is that army of sips, but we begin today with tonight's sold out summer league debut of Victor Wimbanyama.

0:54.0

Because, you know, the number one pick in the draft is gonna take the court against the number two pick, Brandon Miller, and a matchup of like, you know, various spurs and hornets, I suppose.

1:01.0

But Wimbanyama also learned today that no charges will be filed for the incident between a security team and Britney Spears, which is a sentence that I really never thought I would utter.

1:11.0

But my question for you is whether it's appropriate to have really high expectations for Wimbanyama in tonight's debut.

1:19.0

It is impossible not to Pablo for all of the obvious basketball reasons you have heard on this network for months now, greatest prospect since LeBron, seven foot three, demigod, but also because the level of the pipe is such that he has reached TMZ.

1:36.0

I bring the story up not to litigate who is in the wrong.

1:40.0

I am not touching that story with the woman Yama's size poll, but I do think it's worth taking a moment to recognize the incredibleness of the fact that one of the most famous pop stars in the history of the world approached a French teenager who has never played in the NBA because she was a fan.

2:01.0

And the level of hype we are dealing with obviously tonight will not be a referendum on his NBA career, but all of the buzz is merited and inescapable.

2:12.0

Yeah, there's a poetry to this ridiculous story colliding with his debut in America as a professional because, look, Victor Wimbanyama told our friend JJ Redic Meena, I don't feel pressure.

2:24.0

I think this whole position on all of this and I admire his speaking a psychology into existence because you need that when the pressure is either Britney Spears' hand or all of the headlines that you recounted, but the thing of Britney, the thing about it, it was perfect because here was a real life physical manifestation, like a ghost of Christmas future of celebrity in America.

2:50.0

And there was a person, a former child star herself sharing a Vegas residency in the way that Wimbanyama is about to telling him, trying to tell him, you might become like me.

3:03.0

And he's saying, nope, I got this, it's all cool. And I think it's a really hard thing to make your brain impervious to all of the pressure.

3:10.0

Well, now I'm just thinking about Wimbanyama posting Instagrams of him dancing in front of the camera and his home like Britney.

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