The Western Journal
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Leave it to a Frenchman to ruin all the fun.
All joking aside, NBA No. 1 overall pick in this year’s draft and native son of France, Victor Wembanyama, chose some curious words to describe a city that many have pegged to be a future destination for an NBA franchise.
Speaking to reporters after Wembanyama and his woeful San Antonio Spurs (currently 5-26, and yet somehow not the worst record in the league) dropped a road game to the slightly less woeful Portland Trailblazers (9-22) 134-128.
Portland’s own prized rookie, Scoot Henderson, had himself a marvelous game in the win, notching 22 points, 11 assists, and seven rebounds, and Wembanyama, who missed the game due to injury, was asked about his draft classmate by reporters after the game.
Wembanyama had mostly warm and positive thoughts about that Summer League clash with Henderson (an 85-80 win for the Blazers on July 9) … except for the setting.
The NBA hosts its annual Summer League, typically a showcase for rookies and players hoping to make the ends of benches on NBA teams, in Las Vegas, and Wembanyama showed a wisdom beyond his years when he described Sin City.
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