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Sportsnaut "Winning the NBA draft lottery this season may have been the same end result in a team landing the No. 1 pick, but being that it means securing Victor Wembanyama, the lotto luck feels much bigger for the San Antonio Spurs. Coming into the event tied with the best odds to win after..." May 22
Fadeaway World "On Tuesday evening, the San Antonio Spurs were awarded the number one overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft. With this pick, the Spurs landed the rights to the most highly-anticipated draft prospect since LeBron James over two decades ago, Victor Wembanyama. The hype around Wembanyama’s..." May 19
Bleacher Report "It's time to fire up the Ridiculous NBA Trade Machine. Again. This time, the subject is incoming potential superstar Victor Wembanyama. During ESPN's lead-up to the lottery won by the San Antonio Spurs, Adrian Wojnarowski said Wembanyama "may be the..." May 19
NBA Analysis "Lady luck was on the side of the San Antonio Spurs, again, during the 2023 NBA Draft Lottery. San Antonio came away with the rights to the first overall pick, and the opportunity to select Victor Wembanyama, in the 2023 NBA Draft. Wembanyama is the most hyped prospect since LeBron..." May 19
Fadeaway World "Finally, we know who will have the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft. The San Antonio Spurs are in pole position to bring the next No. 1 overall pick to follow in David Robinson and Tim Duncan’s footsteps for the franchise. Seeing superstar Victor..." May 18
The Athletic "Scoot Henderson hasn’t crossed San Antonio off his list of future homes. Despite the Spurs winning the draft lottery Tuesday night and the presumption that they’ll take 7-foot-4 Victor Wembanyama with the No. 1 pick, the 6-foot-2 point guard said he still has a..." May 18
Sportsnaut "With the San Antonio Spurs winning the 2023 NBA Draft Lottery and now set up to select super-prospect Victor Wembanyama in June, there is a belief around the league the team could be a couple of additions away from being playoff contenders soon. The NBA Lottery always draws..." May 17
The Big Lead "Last night's NBA Draft Lottery revealed Victor Wemanyama will be a San Antonio Spur as Gregg Popovich's franchise landed the top overall pick in June's draft. Several franchises were left quite disappointed but Wembanyama himself seemed happy to end up with the..." May 17
The Athletic "The San Antonio Spurs haven’t had a winning season since 2018-19, which seems crazy to say out loud given its track record of success under Hall of Fame coach Gregg Popovich. Before these four years, the team posted a winning record in 22 straight seasons, including an absurd..." May 17
Yahoo! Sports "The first three balls to emerge from the Smartplay lottery machine, a unique glass contraption designed solely for the annual NBA Draft Lottery, read 14, 5 and 8. There are 14 balls submitted into the device — the same tally of representatives from teams that failed to make the..." May 17
The Athletic "For an event that everyone admits is random chance with a low probability, with no team having better than 1-in-7 odds of winning, the NBA Draft Lottery sure had a lot of superstition going on. Virtually every team has tried its own offerings to the lottery gods, and some have tried..." May 17
Clutch Points "The NBA Draft Lottery is nearly here. On Tuesday night, teams who missed out on the postseason will finally know where they will pick in the first round of the 2023 NBA Draft. It’s a time of great excitement for fans but also great anxiety, as teams’ long-term outlooks can..." May 16
CBS Sports "The 2023 NBA Draft lottery might as well be called the "Wembanyama sweepstakes," as French phenom Victor Wembanyama is universally expected to be the top overall pick in June's draft. At 7-feet-2 with tight handles and a smooth shot, Wembanyama boasts a crazy mix of size..." May 16
Sportsnaut "Every few decades, a player emerges with the potential to change the fortune of a downtrodden franchise. The last time this happened successfully was in 2003, when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the Lottery and were able to take homegrown star and generational talent, LeBron James with the first..." May 16
The Athletic "On Tuesday night, the NBA will hold its 2023 draft lottery, and nearly half the league’s teams have a chance (however small) to win the No. 1 pick and the opportunity to add 19-year-old French phenom Victor Wembanyama in June. The Detroit Pistons, Houston..." May 15
Sportsnaut "Fortunes can turn on the bounce of the lottery ball at the 2023 NBA Draft lottery on Tuesday, the chance for the 14 non-playoff teams to win the No. 1 pick and land French phenom Victor Wembanyama. Of the lottery entries, three teams who finished the regular season with winning..." May 15
ESPN "In a small park in Rive Gauche, the Parisian district known for its art and culture, is one of the highest murals in Europe, an 88-foot old stairwell that has been turned into a colorful collection of squiggly figures designed to cheer up patients in the nearby children's..." May 15
Real GM Basketball "Victor Wembanyama will not be able to attend the NBA draft combine due to the Metropolitans 92's season still being in progress. Wembanyama is averaging 21.6 points and 10.1 rebounds this season. " May 10
Bleacher Report "In one sense, we're late to the party. Every NBA team with even the slimmest chance of drafting generational prospect Victor Wembanyama has already been imagining what life would be like with the 7'4" Frenchman on the roster. It's impossible for those franchises to..." April 26
Bleacher Report "We all knew this was coming. French basketball phenom Victor Wembanyama told ESPN's Malika Andrews during an appearance on NBA Today on Friday he has officially declared for the 2023 NBA draft. Wembanyama is widely considered the best prospect in this..." April 21
CBS Sports "Our watch has ended... for now. With 82 games now in the books, we know now how the odds will (mostly) look when lottery night arrives and Victor Wembanyama figures out where his NBA career will begin. As a quick refresher: the NBA lottery works by assigning 1,001 different..." April 13
CBS Sports "There are five days of regular-season basketball left, but only two teams have officially clinched their lottery slots. The Detroit Pistons have only 16 wins. Everybody else has at least 20, so the Pistons will hold the No. 1 slot on lottery night. The Charlotte Hornets have..." April 06
The Athletic "The world of trading cards can sometimes be odd. Boxes of mysteriously produced (yet officially licensed) Kakawow Phantom Disney cards are routinely selling for more than $600. Leaf has produced autographed pickleball cards of the world’s top players — they’re listed for..." April 05
The Big Lead "Victor Wembanyama is not in the NBA yet, but all his games are being carried on the league's website. Today fans could tune in to watch Monaco beat Wemby's Metropolitans 92 squad, 87-68, in LNB Pro A action. The future of the NBA was held to just eight points in 35 minutes, but..." April 02
ESPN "Where is the NBA's race for last place headed? In October, after presumptive 2023 No. 1 pick Victor Wembanyama dazzled in a pair of matchups in the Las Vegas area against G League Ignite and fellow top prospect Scoot Henderson, one GM told ESPN's Jonathan Givony..." March 23
Basket News "Projected No.1 pick Victor Wembanyama has been labeled as the next big thing following his sensational performances in the French league and Metropolitans 92–G League Ignite showdowns in the U.S. The 19-year-old puts on a show on a regular basis, averaging an LNB-best..." February 27
The Athletic "That alarm bell you just heard? It’s tank o’clock in the NBA. The trade deadline has passed, the All-Star break is over and now it’s time for the league’s bottom feeders to get down to the dirty business of acting in the enterprise’s best long-term..." February 23
Clutch Points "Projected number one pick in the 2023 NBA Draft Victor Wembanyama had another viral play in France men’s national basketball team’s World Cup qualifier game against the Czech Republic, and this time it was not for a positive play. Victor Wembanyama was..." February 23
CBS Sports "The Victor Wembanyama media blitz is officially on. ESPN's Brian Windhorst and Jonathan Givony released an excellent profile of Wembanyama this week, and among many, many useful nuggets of information, two bits stood out: As early as the age of 15, he..." February 22
The Athletic "On the morning of Jan. 10, Grant Nelson woke up to a text message sent by a friend from their hometown of Devils Lake, N.D. The text included a link to an obscure Twitter account with the handle @Kjpistons, which had just posted a 1 minute, 42 second video of Nelson..." February 22
Fadeaway World "The 2022-23 NBA season has plenty going on in terms of narrative as teams get ready for the playoffs. The All-Star Weekend and trade deadline are both behind us, and the only thing left now is for teams at the top to fight for the biggest prize, an NBA championship. But the race at the bottom..." February 21
CBS Sports "All season, we've tracked the rather strange lack of tanking ahead of a draft class that features arguably the best prospect of the past 20 years. As of this writing, only the Rockets are on pace to win fewer than 20 games, and a number of teams we expected to lose aggressively..." February 15
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