If this is your first time seeing French big man prospect Victor Wembenyama, odds are you won’t be forgetting him again any time soon.
The 16-year-old center was already 6-foot-10 at age 14, and standing 7-foot-2 years before his 18th birthday coupled with his 7-foot-8 wingspan, surprisingly mobile game and sound jumper has front offices across the NBA on attention.
You can see below that Wembenyama’s slight frame is a barrier to him succeeding at the NBA level as Boston Celtic Vincent Poirier and Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert — both fellow Frenchmen — had little trouble getting past the young big.
Given he’s still filling out his body and appears to have the frame to hang more muscle on in the long term, Wembenyama is a prospect to watch in the coming years — maybe the prospect to watch globally, according to ESPN’s Mike Schmitz.
In the meantime, enjoy this clip of him putting in offseason work with Monsieur Sexpants and the Steiffel Tower while you read up on this European wunderkind on our sister site HoopsHype.
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