2023-06-21 09:41:05
The apprenticeship of US-style stardom continues for Victor Wembanyama. The young Frenchman, 19, tipped to become the No.1 in the NBA draft on Thursday in Brooklyn, continued his seduction operation on Tuesday in New York by being invited to throw the first ball in a Yankees baseball game.
After being welcomed like a rock star the day before by dozens of fans at Newark airport where he landed from Paris, the young 19-year-old prodigy, the greatest hope of world basketball from the top of his 2.22 m, was applauded by the approximately 45,000 spectators present to watch this MLB game.
Arrived by subway from Manhattan to the Bronx, where the emblematic lair of the Yankees is located, Wembanyama had put on the characteristic white striped jersey of the New York team, flocked with the N.5 which was that of the legend Joe DiMaggio, deceased at the age of 84 in 1999, five years before he was born.
Since he set foot in the United States, and in New York, Victor Wembanyama has been in enormous demand. Icon sport Abaca / Icon Sport
“Everything is going so fast,” said Wembanyama, after trying out the extremely popular sport in the United States with a bat and a glove. “I landed yesterday from France. I feel extremely lucky to be here”.
The Frenchman who, like the day before, signed autographs and posed for photos with children, also lent himself to an interview with former player JJ Reddick, for his podcast “the Old Man And the Three”.
And when asked if he doesn’t feel pressure when many observers claim that he is “the best prospect in basketball since LeBron James”, Wembanyama assured: “there is no pressure on this side. there, because it’s not like it’s a reward for them to say that”.
Unless there is an unlikely turnaround, he will be chosen Thursday evening by the Spurs as No.1 in the draft and will then fly to San Antonio where a press presentation is scheduled for Saturday.
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