Victor Wembanyama is the presumed No. 1 pick of the 2023 NBA Draft this Thursday, and he’s so much more than that. He might even be the future of the league for a big man who is so athletic and versatile at a height of 7-foot-4.
But while we marvel at how Wembanyama makes baseball equipment look amusingly small and how he has to literally duck to enter the New York City subway, that size effect is even starker when he just stands next to other people.
Sure, Wembanyama might be the coolest and one of the more gifted NBA draft prospects ever, but to reiterate: he’s very, very, very tall. And these pictures of him next to other luminaries in sports and otherwise provide great context to that reality. It’s one thing to see Wembanyama’s listed massive height on paper.
It’s another task entirely to see it in practice.
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