It’s hard to remember a time when more eyes were on basketball outside of the NBA than they were last week. The Victor Wembanyama/Scoot Henderson showdown was truly a spectacle.
That should come as no surprise. Fans of any NBA team that projects to be under .500 (that owns their own draft pick) are thinking about these two. Why wouldn’t they?
It’s impossible to describe Wembanyama without sounding like a crazy person. He could change basketball. He looks like a created player from a video game: not NBA 2K23, but NBA Jam. Wembanyama might be the product of a secret government experiment.