Wembanyama vs. Holmgren: The NBA’s Future Starts Now

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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NBA fans have had Wednesday’s matchup between the Spurs and Thunder circled on the calendar for months. Because when rookies Victor Wembanyama and Chet Holmgren face off in San Antonio, it will be the latest battle of what is expected to be a long and historic rivalry. And thanks to the likes of Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid and Karl Anthony Towns, it’s all happening in an era where the big man has been reinvigorated. So today, ESPN’s Brian Windorst takes us from Holmgren’s Minnehaha High School all the way to an epic battle against Wembanyama in the Under 19 FIBA World Cup to where we are now – the courts of the NBA where these two unicorns are battling it out for Rookie of the Year and where the future of the NBA looks brighter than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Brian Windhorst, the NBA Rookie of the Year battle is between Victor Wembanyama and
0:06.1	Cheat-Homgren.
0:07.3	How much time have you spent around these two, sir?
0:10.1	Not as much as I won, but I have the opportunity to get to know Victor before the season.
0:18.6	And I've been following Cheats since he was about a junior in high school. He's from Minneapolis, which is not far from me, and I was fascinated by his makeup as a player.
0:31.0	I'm not somebody who typically pays that close attention to guys
0:35.0	before they get to the NBA. Quite frankly, Clinton, I don't have the bandwidth for
0:39.3	it, but Chet was an exception to that. Of course she watched him play in high school.
0:44.2	Everybody likes to say mini ha ha.
0:47.6	Yes, and I'm going to tell you the highlights from mini ha ha ha,
0:51.2	and also his AAU and also his A. A. A. U.
0:52.8	and also his time with Team USA
0:56.0	were amazing because not only do you see
0:59.8	a guy in Cheat who is immensely talented at a huge size, okay, anybody can see that.
1:06.4	But when you really get to watch Chet and get to know his game a little bit, and this is really
1:10.5	the most exciting thing about him is his competitive streak.
1:14.6	Talk about confident Cheet third grade goes coast to coast so easily for a seven footer.
1:20.0	And Jay, how many times have we seen him do that in this game?
1:23.5	That's like the third time, just super smooth and fluid.
1:27.2	And then, how about the...
1:28.2	He really, really wants to win.
1:30.3	And you know, sometimes you see really tall players even if they're talented and
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