"Like a baby giraffe" - NBA Reddit amazed by Victor Wembanyama's outrageous highlights as a kid
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama has taken the NBA by storm, living up to lofty expectations in his rookie season, and elevating his game to further heights in his sophomore campaign with the Spurs. A childhood highlight video of the Spurs star has recently gone viral on social media.
Here's how fans on Reddit reacted to the video.
"Looks like a baby giraffe," one reddit user wrote.
"Omg, you can tell the shoes are heavy for his skinny legs. The way he's gotta build momentum to run, so adorable," a fan wrote.
"He looks like Arlo from the good dinosaur movie lol," another fan wrote.
"This looks just like that pre-draft Giannis workout lol," one NBA fan said.
"He looks like a baby deer playing. It's awesome to think that he is so good nowadays," a Reddit user said.
"Young Wemby had a temper haha," a fan wrote.
Wembanyama has come a long way since the time this video must have been shot. In his first NBA season, he clinched the Rookie of the Year award after he put up stats of 21.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 3.6 blocks, and 1.2 steals per game. This season has seen him take his game a notch higher and he is averaging 24.6 points, 10.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 4.0 blocks and 1.1 steals.
Victor Wembanyama opens up on All-Star starter snub
Victor Wembanyama is likely to be an All-Star reserve in his second season, although many fans and analysts expected that he would be a starter. He spoke about the snub on Thursday before the results were officially announced.
"I didn't have my mind on that at all," the Spurs star said. "There's a lot going on right now, and we got games to focus on. So it's — just like everything— it's a byproduct of collective results, and the individual awards will come."
The starters for the Western Conference, the conference in which Wembanyama's San Antonio Spurs play are, LA Lakers' LeBron James, Golden State Warriors' Steph Curry, Denver Nuggets' Nikola Jokic, OKC Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Phoenix Suns' Kevin Durant.