NBA Team Would Trade 10 Years Worth Of Draft Picks For Victor Wembanyama

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NBA Team Would Trade 10 Years Worth Of Draft Picks For Victor Wembanyama

 

Victor Wembanyama has been considered the best basketball prospect on earth for some years now, while continuing to turn heads among scouts and journalists.

Wembanyama, who is the early favorite to go first off the draft board in next year’s NBA draft, has an utterly impressive skillset for someone his age and size especially.

The young Frenchman is listed at 7’2, with a 7’9 wingspan, which even feels very conservative. He is quick, can pass, shoot the three and has handles – the full package. His combination of size, length, athleticism and skill puts him in a class that arguably no other NBA prospect has approached since LeBron James, making him the most hyped prospect since.

And  Victor can back it up. After the young big man amazed the masses in Europe, Americans got a taste of what’s to come. Last week, Wembanyama had an epic performance against the G-League Ignite, finishing with 37 points along with 7 3-pointers and 5 blocks, he then led his Metro 92 once again and scored 36 points with 11 rebounds and four blocks in the second game against the ignite.

Many people expect a tanking race for the ages in this coming NBA season, to just have a mere chance at what could easily turn out one of the best players ever, and judging by his last two games against the Ignite, who can blame them.

NBA Insider Dave McMenamin now revealed some insights on Wembanyama and revealed some utterly ridiculous things he was told by teams across the NBA, such as team officials willing to trade every draft pick for the next 10 years in order to get Wembanyama.

 

“I had one guy tell me that the only way he’s not the no. 1 pick is if a team does research and finds out he murdered someone. I had another team tell me that ‘no one’s gonna have to go overseas to scout him anymore. Now that they’ve seen it, they’ve seen enough. I had someone else tell me he shoots like Steph Curry. I had someone else tell me that if it was possible to trade draft picks for the next 10 years, they would trade draft picks for the next 10 years in order to secure the spot to get him. I had someone else tell me that he is the ‘anti-Darko Milicic.’ Whereas in the past you had someone who was almost mythical out there but now the entire league has seen the real deal. Everybody’s convinced and, quite frankly, he will be the under-running current to the entire NBA standing all season long.”

 

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