Soon the NBA Finals will kick off and the league will find a new champion. After that, the entire focus of fans and media will switch to the draft and Victor Wembanyama. Like all hyped consensus top picks before, inevitably analysts and fans will try to find holes in his game.
The temptation to overthink whether all the praise heaped at the French prospect is warranted will be high. The NBA did a good job of marketing Wemby but a lot of people will go off highlights, and if YouTube videos could make Thon Maker look like the next Kevin Durant, who’s to say that all those impressive clips of the French giant are not just cherry-picked to create a narrative that isn’t substantiated by facts?