If the pressure of likely being the No. 1 pick in the NBA is getting Victor Wembanyam, he did a fantastic job of hiding it.
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He has yet to see the sights of New York City, but did plan to walk around midtown at some point before the draft, even if that meant getting mobbed by New Yorkers.Victor Wembanyama may have made an enemy in Jabari Smith Jr. with NBA Draft lottery reaction “I’m trying to be the best, so being the best, it’s not only on the court,” he said. “There’s [other] dimensions of an individual basketball player, an NBA player, and I want to be the best also at the media, the press conference, all that stuff. I don’t like to do things halfway. I’m trying to enjoy it.”Arnaud Valadon, a French sports reporter who made the trip across the Atlantic Ocean for the draft, said the 19-year-old Wembanyama has been mature beyond his age for years.
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