Hope this is sarcasm. Have we really become this freaking soft? We are now pushing to ban someone who has worked to be the best he can be just because others can't keep up.
Victor Wembanyama is breaking basketball. The only reasonable solution? Get him out of the NBA before it’s too late.
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It was actually an interesting article with all the tidbits about the historical rule adjustments caused by the physical domination of certain players. I didn’t realize all that had occurred.
I think he was trying to use the “kick him out of the NBA” narrative as a candid expression of how truly good Wemby actually is, essentially saying that he’s so good that there’s not even a rule change or court dimensional change that can be implemented to level the playing field in his case.
Where he kind of went overboard is all the idiotic assumptions about the quality of play diminishing when a bunch of teams in the future blowing draft capital on a “Wemby stopper”. First, it’s counterintuitive to his entire point…..the guy is so good that he transcends basketball spacetime, so how is finding a “Wemby stopper” even possible? Secondly, it just ignores the fact that the Knicks just bítch slapped the Spurs in the Finals like 4 months ago, and the Thunder were literally one play or made / missed shot away - on multiple occasions - from winning the Western Conference finals 4-2. Therefore, his whole narrative that the rest of the league is hopeless for a decade unless he gets hurt is really ridiculous.
Yes, the dude is really good. Maybe the best ever. Yes, he provides a tremendous advantage when he’s out there. But he’s still just one player.