The Spurs win the draft lottery and will take over the prodigy Wembanyama

The San Antonio Spurs won the NBA draft lottery on Tuesday and on June 22 they will be able to take over the French prodigy Victor Wembanyama, who at 19 is considered a generational talent, capable of revolutionizing the balance of the American league. .

At the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, the draft lottery awarded the Spurs, ahead of the Charlotte Hornets, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Houston Rockets.

The cry with which the manager of the Spurs Peter J. Holt celebrated the victory of the Spurs makes understand the importance of this year's lottery, whose prize was Wembanyama, a 19-year-old center who has captured the spotlight of the world of basketball with his amazing performances at the Parisian Metropolitans.

An expectation of this type has not been lived in the NBA for twenty years, when the Cleveland Cavaliers took over LeBron James.

It was already past two in the morning in Paris and Wembanyama followed the lottery accompanied by his family and friends to find out what his new home will be from the next NBA season.

“My heart is beating, it is a very special moment that I will remember for the rest of my life,” Wembanyama acknowledged as soon as he received the news.

He is considered a child prodigy, a versatile player capable of dominating both in the paint and from goal, and with a very unusual character for a 19-year-old talent.

“I will give everything to win as many games as possible, I will be prepared. I will try to win a ring as soon as possible,” he warned without fear.

“I will try my quality, I am eager to find my fans and my teammates,” he concluded.

He will work with a legend like Gregg Popovich on a Spurs that will have a first pick in the draft for the third time in their history.. In 1987 they chose David Robinson, in 1997 they took over Tim Duncan and in 2023 they will take over Wembanyama.

The Spurs started this lottery as one of the four favorite franchises to get the first pick, along with the Charlotte Hornets, the Detroit Pistons and the Houston Rockets.

The four had a 14% chance of getting the first election. The Spurs triumphed and the ones that had the least were the Pistons, who kept the fifth.

The Portland Trail Blazers slipped into third position, with the Hornets second and Ime Udoka's Rockets, fourth. The Orlando Magic, who had the first pick last year, took the sixth and the eleventh, via the Chicago Bulls, who owed him a pick for the Nikola Vucevic operation.

WEMBANYAMA, A GENERATIONAL TALENT

The NBA hallucinates with the talent of Wembanyama and for months the expectation for the 2023 draft has skyrocketed and to know which team could put their hands on one of the brightest talents

Tall, 2.21 meters, and capable of mixing his physical power as a center with impressive athleticism, three-point shooting and one-on-one ability, Wembanyama has been the number one target of NBA franchises for months.

His tremendous potential made many franchises, seeing themselves without serious postseason goals, bet on falling in the classification precisely to have more options to get the first pick.

Stars like Steph Curry, of the Golden State Warriors, who compared him to a “NBA 2K video game player”, or the Greek Giannis Antetokounmpo, of the Milwaukee Bucks, have surrendered to Wembanyama's talent in recent months.

“Is incredible. The way he can shoot, the way he can move, he's extremely fast for his size, he can block shots, he can be a threat on defense.. Is incredible. We have to prepare for this kid, you know? It's going to be really good,” said the Greek.

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