Standing where San Antonio Spur Victor Wembanyama has, Kevin Durant sees greatness already
PARIS — In a cramped nondescript gym on the corner of a sleepy nondescript street, a tall, slender fellow made a tiny place look even smaller. It was not the first time. On the same spot under the basket where Kevin Durant stood in sweatpants and flip-flops Thursday morning, Victor Wembanyama soared in a French League playoff uniform only 14 months earlier. Neither expected to stay long.
The best Olympics coverage from the Express-News, delivered to your inbox No, it’s not quite the same thing. But in the city where Wembanyama grew up idolizing the lanky, sharp-shooting American who lived up to almost every impossible expectation while essentially inventing a new basketball position, Durant thinks he has better grasp than most of where the kid came from. Even if he admits he can make only an educated guess about the next part.
At Paris Olympics, return to normal not without its risks That was Durant’s point way back in the first month of Wembanyama’s rookie season, when the Spurs won back-to-back games against the Suns in Phoenix. Durant raved about him then, just as fellow Olympians LeBron James, Joel Embiid and Giannis Antetokounmpo would after their first brushes with him, because pretending this wasn’t special just seemed silly.
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