The team that wins the NBA Draft Lottery gets the right to choose No. 1 overall in next month’s draft. And they’ll almost certainly use that pick on Victor Wembanyama, the 7-foot-3 French phenom.
“I’m alive. I have ears and I can see TV and there’s a lottery. Yes, I’ve thought about it,” San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said on the day his team’s season ended in April. “Duh. Did you think I didn’t, that I live in a phone booth?”
So have a ton of NBA players, even the game’s biggest stars. LeBron James famously called Wembanyama “an alien,” and Giannis Antetokounmpo — who said he enjoyed hearing that Wembanyama counts him among his favorite players — insisted that the kid should make immediate impact in the NBA. There are some other surefire lottery picks in this draft that should make teams better as well — among them, Alabama’s Brandon Miller, twin brothers Amen and Ausar Thompson of the Overtime Elite program, and Scoot Henderson of the G League Ignite. It was announced Monday that Henderson will be mentored on and off the court by four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors.
Wembanyama won’t be at the lottery; his French team, Boulogne-Levallois, has a game Tuesday. It’ll be a little after 2 a.m. Wednesday in Paris when the results are announced.
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