Victor Wembanyama scored 30 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs' rout of the Indiana Pacers as Wemby played his first NBA game on French soil.
PARIS – Vic tor Wembanyama took a pair of demonstrative dribbles Thursday, weaved through traffic and threw down a rim-shaking two-handed slam dunk. The certifiably pro-Wemby crowd at Accor Arena went appropriately nuts. And this was only the pregame layup line. There would be more where that came from in Wembanyama’s French homecoming.
Propelled by Wembanyama’s do-it-all heroics in the third quarter – which ended with a tip-in of a Julian Champagnie miss at the horn -- the Spurs led 105-80 heading to the fourth. “When he dominates the little things and the fundamentals of the game, it’s absolutely spectacular,” Spurs acting coach Mitch Johnson said. “When he embraces that, it can be a scary stretch at times.” From start to finish, the night clearly meant much to Wembanyama.
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