16 and 2.18 – these were the two figures that stuck in my brain after the first time I googled “Victor Wembanyana.” I did so because Nate Duncan had just mentioned Wembanyama as “the brightest prospect in world basketball.” I immediately – and I do mean immediately — typed the name into the keyboard of my laptop and pressed “enter.” Because that’s just what you do as a basketball fan when you hear a player described that way. Because I think I had never heard that type of description for a basketball prospect before. (I’m sure LeBron in the years leading up to his draft was also referred to as “the brightest prospect in world basketball,” but there were no podcasts in those days, and I didn’t read nearly as much about the NBA back then.
Wemby’s arrival has me feeling like a brand new Spurs fan
