Victor Wembanyama's height, wingspan, shoe size and everything else we know about the presumptive top pick in the 2023 NBA Draft.
As the presumptive top pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft, Wembanyama has been dreaming of this moment for years.
“Ever since I knew about the draft, exactly how it worked, I wanted to be first,” Wembanyama said Wednesday. “I think I started to realize I could be a professional basketball player at the age of 12.”Wembanyama is French, and played professionally in France The 19-year-old Wembanyama was born in Le Chesnay, France, and has been playing professionally in France’s top basketball league LNB Pro A since 2019, most recently for the Metropolitans 92 club.
While playing professionally in France, Wembanyama won the Pro A league championship in 2022, the Most Valuable Player award in 2023, and the All-Star Game MVP in 2022.Wembanyama is 7-foot-5 The French prospect is listed 7-foot-5 by ESPN, but searches for Wembanyama’s height on the internet can net results ranging from 7-foot-2 to 7-foot-9.
There have been several basketball players who came into the NBA taller than 7-foot-3, but only one, China’s Yao Ming, ever made an All-Star Game. While both of those figures are large, they are far from NBA records. NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal says he buys a size 22 shoe, and former Celtics center Tacko Fall was measured having an 8-foot-2 wingspan.
Wembanyama is viewed as a devastating defender and likely will be a willing shot-blocker with his large frame and strong mobility for a person of his size. Offensively, Wembanyama has an innate dribbling feel for a player of his size, and can shoot from three-point range, a sought-after skill in today’s NBA.Basketball analyst Jay Bilas said it would be a “tough decision” between James and Wembanyama if they were both hypothetically in the same draft class.
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