2023-05-19 17:55:15
He hasn’t put his bags down yet. He is not even officially chosen by his future club in the NBA yet. However, there can be no doubt: Victor Wembanyama, the new star of world basketball will be chosen on June 22 by the San Antonio Spurs during the draft. The supporters of the Texas club have already launched the Wemby madness.
Within minutes of the lottery that named San Antonio, Spurs ticket office workers logged hundreds and hundreds of ticket requests. We are talking about almost 2,500 orders between 7:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m., but local Kens 5 reporter Nate Ryan thought it would be 3,000 by the end of the day on Thursday. “Traffic on the club’s website and app was also ten times higher than normal,” he added.
“This shows how excited there is to see this man play for the first time on the other side of the ocean and that the team has a real chance of reaching the play-offs, commented Franck Miceli, chief revenue officer of Spurs Sports & Entertainment at the local channel. It’s hard to predict, but we expect it to be a record. »
Don Harris, the sports editor of News 4 San Antonio also adds in an editorial that “the only thing bigger than Victor Wembanyama is the hype that is building around him, the greatest hope of the history of team sports. It’s not just about basketball anymore, it’s so big it’s gonna change the whole city. He’s an international star, he’s going to change San Antonio like Jordan changed Chicago. We celebrated for about five minutes and then 40 people got to work. The franchise’s website reportedly saw ten times the traffic, and the app was downloaded in droves.
And that’s without counting on the next jersey sales. In the meantime, the young 19-year-old prodigy still wears that of the Metropolitans of Boulogne-Levallois, with which he will play this Sunday in the quarter-final of Betclic Elite against Cholet. Another world.
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