Victor Wembanyama, future French NBA star

Victor Wembanyama: his name may not mean anything to you, yet this young 18-year-old Frenchman is on the way to becoming the new phenomenon of world basketball. Friday, October 7, in the country of Michael Jordan, he achieves a rare performance. Even to the point of being dubbed by the greatest, such as the Frenchman Rudy Gobert or even LeBron James, planetary star of basketball: “He’s an alien, I’ve never seen that, nobody’s ever seen that. Being so big and being so fluid and graceful on the pitch”.

Praises that do not fall from the sky. At 11, the young man from Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) is already 1.91 m tall and impresses. A talent that he confirms with age, taking advantage of an extraordinary size: 2.21 m and even 2.43 m wingspan. Enough to impose his style and a thirst for success that he expresses in an already perfect English: “I want to be even better and the level I have today is far from sufficient”. Yet enough to make the front page of American magazines and to join, perhaps next season, the floors and the stars of the NBA.