Wembanyama, who is the new basketball phenomenon: first choice NBA, Lego, origins

He made his debut for the French national team on Friday 11 November against Lithuania in the qualifiers for the 2023 World Cup (large away victory for the Blues as Olympic and European runners-up) and immediately explained that yes, it’s all true, he is the star player of the future. Or perhaps already in the present. Victor Wembanyama, 19 years old on January 4th, 2.19 high, scored 20 points and grabbed 9 rebounds in his evening as a deb, the first of many sumptuous scores that will follow over time. Even in the USA – planet NBA, given that in the summer of 2023 he will be a very obvious first overall choice – they rolled their eyes and used the term that is used to define an unparalleled player: unicorn. There are even those who are already unbalanced: There will be a before and an after him. Paolo Banchero, the Italian-American who hopes to bring to the Azzurri and who has made a great start to the year as a rookie, risks having to deal with a star even brighter than him. So let’s find out who the new phenomenon of the baskets, for which the Spanish newspaper El Pais he used this definition: Wembanyama is a skyscraper with infinite legs and arms, enormous hands, a mobility and technique that you would not imagine in such a giant.