Victor Wembanyama is still a week away from his regular-season debut, but he's already had a major impact on the Spurs.
. The team has a .377-win percentage since drafting him with the 11th overall pick in the 2020 NBA draft. They've lost twice in the first round of the play-in tournament, and last year posted the franchise's worst record since 1996-97.
In the first 48 hours following the selection of Wembanyama, the Spurs saw a 3,000% increase from the previous year in online traffic and sales.Silver and Black Scrimmage The attention the Spurs are drawing is on par with -- or in some cases above -- the levels they saw when David Robinson, Tim Duncan andwere riding down the River Walk with the Larry O'Brien Trophy in hand. But the 19-year-old rookie drawing all the attention isn't worried about the hype getting to him or his teammates.
"And they know it's different. They know it's going to happen. Of course, there's going to be a lot of attention, but it's at the end of the day when everything is done and we're at practice and I'm like, 'Yeah, OK, what do we do to get this thing better?' So it's really stuff we don't care about. It's basketball first.
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