2023-05-16 21:23:43
Just before kick-off, a small crowd formed around Victor Wembanyama’s parents. Omar Sy has just entered the Marcel-Cerdan sports hall. A few hours before the NBA lottery, Victor Wembanyama plays there on May 16, his last game of the regular season. Nothing disturbs the giant who plays as if it were an evening like the others when he is, for a few hours, the object of planetary attention. The entire NBA and French sport are suspended on the result of the lottery which will determine, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, the destination for the next three or four years of the tricolor prodigy.
The match has started and discreetly, without anyone noticing, Kylian Mbappé, the PSG striker, comes to settle alongside Omar Sy, just below the Wembanyama clan in full force. The two planetary phenomena of French sport are brought together for a match in the same room and in the same place. It is a unique privilege: “I came to see Wemby, explains the captain of the France team to the microphone of beIN Sports I had promised him that I was going to come. It took me a while but I’m here today. Because I also know it’s a special day for him. I came to enjoy watching him play. »
The two stars already know each other. They met one evening last fall at the Park. “Kylian does not necessarily need to be a source of inspiration to recognize his greatness, Wemby told us in December the day after the World Cup final. It’s obvious how big he is and only people who are in denial can’t, or won’t, acknowledge him. “With the hero of the series Lupin, Mbappé was entitled to a visit to the locker room during the break to greet the very next number 1 choice in the NBA draft. The two magicians of the same generation are often necessarily compared: “Both of us are different anyway, continues Mbappé. You don’t have to be a top athlete to know that this guy is special. What we can do is accompany him, support him, admire what he has already done and what he will do in the future”.
The PSG striker, a big NBA fan with whom he is in partnership, should continue the evening with Wemby and perhaps attend the lottery draw scheduled for around 2 a.m. with him. “Where would I like to see him land in the NBA? comments the footballer on beIN Sports. It is first of all what matters to him. With Popovich and the Spurs, it can be not bad even if there was already TP there. Above all, he must write his own story. Everyone is impatient to see him in the NBA and me the first. I’m going to follow that tonight and cheer him on no matter what. »
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