Victor Wembanyama Towers Over the Thunder, and the Game of Basketball | The New Yorker
San Antonio’s Game Seven victory against Oklahoma City announced the arrival of the N.B.A.’s most remarkable new superstar in years, Victor Wembanyama.
Save this story Save this story You’re reading The Sporting Scene , Louisa Thomas’s weekly look at the world of sports. Victor Wembanyama, the San Antonio Spurs’ supernova, opened the Western Conference Finals, against the Oklahoma City Thunder, with forty-one points and twenty-four rebounds in a double-overtime game that seemed to reset the possibilities of professional basketball. He ended Game Seven, a thrilling 111–103 win over the defending champions, with a pedestrian stat line—twenty-two points, two assists, seven rebounds—and a glimpse of his dreams. And when it was over, after he had
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