PARIS -- IT'S LATE MORNING on a gray winter day just outside the French capital, and Victor Wembanyama hasn't been awake very long. This makes several people in his life quite happy.
The small arena located a little over 2 miles from the Arc de Triomphe that Wembanyama is calling his basketball home is mostly dark, transformed into a set for a photo shoot, complete with complicated lighting arrays and cameras at all angles.
His team, the Metropolitans 92, will have to delay practice until the shoot is over. The team was on the brink of dissolving last year, and its future beyond this season is in doubt.