Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shared his uplifting phrases of advice and encouragement to Victor Wembanyama as this yr’s prime total choose graced the hardwood of Las Vegas to headline the San Antonio Spurs’ Summer League outing.
“Just be patient. Pick up what he can pick up as he goes along,” his advice to Wembanyama as he spoke to ESPN’s Cassidy Hubbarth throughout halftime of Spurs’ matchup towards the Charlotte Hornets.
“He’s not gonna get all at once, but he’s got a lot of potential. We’ll see what happens.”
The all-time nice heart was simply one of many 17,500 capability crowd throughout the jam-packed Thomas & Mack Center as he occupied a entrance row seat to view the extremely anticipated Summer League debut of the French wunderkind.
The legendary heart additionally believes that Wembanyama has to familiarize himself now within the degree of play within the NBA as it’s completely totally different to what he seized in Europe.
Friday night time marks the primary time that Wembanyama has absolutely skilled the extreme NBA environment. It can be his first aggressive recreation since capping off his tenure with the Metropolitans 92 within the Finals stage of French League again in June.
Though he had an underwhelming offensive night time highlighted by his lowly 9 factors in 2-of-13 capturing throughout 27 minutes of play, Wembanyama nonetheless utilized his 7-foot-5 towering presence to at the least have a defensive significance within the Spurs’ 76-68 conquer No. 2 choose Brandon Miller and the Hornets by registering 5 main blocks.
“I think he’s gonna have to learn our style of play. He played multiple times of the game over in Europe,” Abdul-Jabbar additionally mentioned to Wembanyama.
“They don’t play the game exactly like we do.”
