'I've heard from so many people that this is the best basketball gym in the world and I'm eager to find out,' Wemby said before the Spurs took on the Knicks.
The World's most Famous Arena plays host to the World's most Famous Rookie, and all the attention that comes with him.
A good amount of fans and reporters will be there just to see the player hailed as the best prospect since LeBron for the first time. It's the early game on ESPN, and the cheapest tickets areThe Spurs went from largely ignored to the national spotlight in the bounce of a few ping pong balls, and the sports media environment in New York is a year-round circus unlike anything else.
All of this is a good reminder that Victor Wembanyama is already one of the most famous and recognizable stars in the basketball world, and the bright lights bring obsessive fanatics and casual observers and trolls farming rage clicks and robots who reply to tweets about trending topics with links to cryptocurrency scams. It's a level of celebrity we're not used to seeing in San Antonio, and it's a good thing he seems so used to it.
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