Fans of the San Antonio Spurs couldn’t wait for the NBA draft.
officially joins the Spurs. Sure, San Antonio’s front office is doing its due diligence and interviewing other players, but Wembanyama is the unquestioned No. 1 pick on June 22.The owner of Rudy’s Seafood restaurant, Ramirez had local artist Nik Soupe paint a mural of Wembanyama in a Spurs uniform at the entrance of his restaurant near downtown, about eight miles from the team's home arena. Ramirez did so. In March. While the season was still taking place.
After matching a league record of 22 straight playoff appearances, San Antonio has not made the postseason the last four seasons, the longest drought in the franchise’s 50-year history. All of which is why Ramirez had no doubt Wembanyama would be in a Spurs uniform. After all, Wembanyama seems a natural addition to the lineage of a franchise that used it's previous No. 1 picks on big men David Robinson in 1987 and Duncan in 1997.
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