To be the best you have to pay a price and the expectations and eyes of fans and everybody depending on you to be some sort of like a saviour is what kills talents early on.<\/p>\n
This is not the case but it might be if it\u2019s not controlled by French Phenom Victor Wembanyama.<\/p>\n
The 2023 NBA draft is just a few days away and June 22, 2023, will see the best talents get to the NBA and leading the pack is the 19-year-old teenage Sensation Wembanyama.<\/p>\n
Victor is projected to be the first overall pick during the draft and he is expected to take the NBA by storm.<\/p>\n
After the San Antonio Spurs won the first overall pick in the NBA Draft lottery, they are expected to select him when the day comes.<\/p>\n
As seen by the excitement of their agent when they landed the first overall pick, we can agree that Wembanyama is expected to revolutionize the franchise once he gets there.<\/p>\n
Victor is set to boost the franchise value where he joins by more than half a billion dollars with reports indicating that not only will the team benefit but the entire area.<\/p>\n
Although all these are some contributions expected by drafting Victor, the bigger role is to transform the San Antonio Spurs to its glory days.<\/p>\n
Getting first pick means a team has been struggling the past season and finished bottom of the table hence getting the chance to revamp their squad.<\/p>\n
For the San Antonio Spurs, they have been in the trenches for long now with the playoffs looking like a future goal for them.<\/p>\n
They last played in the playoffs in 2020 and their last ring was won in 2014 led by Tim Duncan. Victor is expected to bring all these back and as much as it seems doable, it is not easy.<\/p>\n
Victor is staying optimistic about revolutionizing the franchise once he gets there with his eyes set on a championship once there.<\/p>\n
In an interview with ESPN shortly after the Spurs won the chance to select first overall, Wembanyama was asked what the Spurs would get if they selected him, and he responded, \u201d Aah, you know\u2026 team player, I am gonna make everything to win as many games as I can and I am tryna win a ring ASAP so be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are so many expectations on him and this can be compared to what was expected from an 18-year-old LeBron James who was a star player in his senior year at St. Vincent\u2013St. Mary High School in Akron back in 2003.<\/p>\n
LeBron\u2019s hype came with a prize, he was expected to bring a change to the team he joined once he got drafted.<\/p>\n
Too much weight on him and an ordinary 18-year-old could have panicked at that but not LeBron.<\/p>\n
In a resurfaced clip of a 2003 interview of an 18-year-old LeBron James posted by Timeless Sports on Twitter, a rather composed young James is asked,\u201d LeBron James, how does it feel to know, that if you\u2019re not eventually a Hall of Fame calibre player\u2026 if you\u2019re not eventually a first-rank Hall of Famer, a lot of people will say you\u2019re a bust or overhyped?\u201d<\/p>\n
With composure, LeBron James responds,\u201d How does that make me feel? Well, I don\u2019t look into the future.<\/p>\n
I always take every moment at a time, because you\u2019re not promised tomorrow. And that\u2019s what my mom brought me up on. I just try to get better every day at what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nLeBron James was in HIGH SCHOOL being told, \u201cif you\u2019re not a first ballot Hall of Famer, you\u2019re gonna be considered a bust.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then still exceeded expectations. \ud83d\udc51 (2003) pic.twitter.com\/RRtQ6pUNWa<\/a><\/p>\n
— Timeless Sports (@timelesssports_) November 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n