The 2023 NBA Draft was all about the 19-year-old French superstar Victor Wembanyama. As expected, the San Antonio Spurs picked him as the first overall pick in the draft.
NBA analyst Stephen A. Smith interviewed Victor Wembanyama ahead of the draft and was shocked by his height. Smith shared his reaction to meeting Wembanyama with a hilarious joke aimed at his own hairline.
“Victor Wembanyama was drafted number one by the San Antonio Spurs,” Smith said on Twitter. “The kid is 7’5″, I stood next to him. Ladies and gentlemen, my hairline receded by about three feet because I was looking up. You couldn’t even see that I had hair standing next to this dude. I’ve never stood next to a person that tall in my damn life.”
Smith added: “When you consider how tall he was and you imagine his ball-handling skills, his shooting ability, his talent, the only thing you could say is, ‘Boy is he real thin!’ And they are going to get physical with him, and we’re gonna see what happens. Gregg Popovich and those boys in San Antonio are going to have to figure out a way to protect him, get some meat and potato brothers around him.”
“Make sure you put some meat and potatoes on him. If he doesn’t want to gain weight, make sure he changes his mind, because you ain’t going to last long in the NBA being that damn thin. Unless you Kevin Durant-esque, which some people say he is. I have to see that to believe that,” the veteran analyst concluded.
Victor Wembanyama had me looking so far up my hairline damn near disappeared pic.twitter.com/OtqJmIYm9n
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) June 24, 2023
Victor Wembanyama’s talent has been recognized by most around the league. But one thing that everyone has warned him about is the level of physicality in the NBA. To fight that off, he needs to put on some muscle.
Stephen A. Smith Called Victor Wembanyama A Poor Man’s Taller Version Of Kevin Durant
Victor Wembanyama has already drawn comparisons to many NBA greats. The list includes Phoenix Suns superstar Kevin Durant.
Durant is listed at 6’10” and has guard-like handles combined with an insane ability to score at will. Back in October 2022, Stephen A. called Wembanyama a poor man’s taller version of Durant.
“When I think about this kid right here, he seems to me to be a poor man’s taller version of the great Kevin Durant,” Smith said. “He’s got ball-handling skills. He’s got a J. He’s got a perimeter game. He can get to the hole. He has those skills. But he’s rail thin.”
Wembanyama averaged 21.6 PPG, 10.4 RPG, 2.4 APG, 0.7 SPG, and 3.0 BPG for the Metropolitans 92 last season. Can he carry over those numbers during his first season in the league? We will find out in a few months.
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