![]() ![]() Seats in the same area of that arena for Tuesday night’s Arctic Monkeys concert were going for $79. Sunday morning, a few hours before tipoff, tickets were available on the secondary market for about $285 apiece. “The demand for seats for the games has been constantly growing, which has led the club’s management to look for a solution to be able to offer as many people as possible the opportunity to attend a Metropolitans game led by Victor Wembanyama,” his team said in a statement announcing the venue change.ĭemand was overwhelming, as expected. ![]() He got mobbed just as he walked to his courtside seat that night, the crowd around him spilling a few feet onto the floor and being totally oblivious to the actual NBA players who were warming up before them in that moment. He got tons of attention there in January when he showed up to watch an NBA game between Chicago and Detroit. He starred there in December in the French All-Star game. So a few months ago, someone had the brilliant idea to move one of the club’s late-season home games into Accor Arena - basically an NBA-sized building. ![]() Wembanyama’s home games for his Boulogne-Levallois team in Paris are typically played before something like 4,000 fans, inside an arena that resembles the types of gyms that many NBA players had at their disposal in high school. “It’s nice.”Įven the venue on Sunday night was part of the farewell plan. “I have the impression that the people here were real basketball fans who bought their tickets in advance,” Wembanyama said after the game. Wembanyama only has a few games remaining left in his French season, and if Sunday was any indication the basketball fans in his homeland are going to send him off in style. He’s leaving France soon - and this good-bye, evidently, will not be a sad one. Indeed, the new chapter is nearing and nearing fast. “Ten days before knowing my future team,” Wembanyama tweeted on Saturday, in French. That worked out pretty well he only became the all-time leading scorer in NBA history. 1 pick like this one since LeBron James in 2003. The team that wins the lottery isn’t trading the pick, or isn’t going to need five weeks to figure out what to do. That means in about a week, we’ll know where Wembanyama is going to play next season. The NBA draft lottery is May 16 in Chicago. San Antonio, Detroit, Houston, Charlotte and a bunch of other places are crossing their fingers even more than usual these days. Las Vegas visits Los Angeles after Young's 23-point performance He’s that good, he’s proven it every time he takes the floor - and as the enormous hype surrounding his move to the NBA continues to grow, he’s showing no signs that it’s getting to him in any way whatsoever. His final numbers for Boulogne-Levallois in its 93-82 win over Bourg-en-Bresse on Sunday: 25 points, 10 rebounds, four assists.Ī fine night, for certain, but nothing that’s out of the ordinary for this extraordinary kid. 1 pick in the NBA draft is on his farewell tour of his homeland, playing his final pro games there before he comes to North America and accepts the challenge of trying to truly become the game’s next superstar. The 7-foot-3, 19-year-old, soon-to-be No. He’s called a generational talent, though really, there’s never been one in France quite like Wembanyama. ![]() He deflected a pass, ran it down, dribbled twice and dunked the ball with his left hand.Īnd 15,000 people - about four or five times the size of the usual crowd at his home games - roared. Type your text within brackets, followed by the 'spoiler' hashtag.Victor Wembanyama’s first basket on Sunday night looked so easy. Please be mindful about spoilers, don't put them in the post title. Please link flair your submission accordingly if the automoderator hasn't. No flaming, trolling, arguing, insulting, low-effort or Meme posts. If you have a dope combo video to share please feel free to post it! Mods will choose on a per post basis what is considered low effort. No low effort self promotion! This includes links to twitch channels, spammy clickbait youtube videos, and anything that you would consider "blatant self promotion". 'NEW CHALLENGER' INFO Read before posting! We are Reddit's home for NetherRealm Studio's DC Comics fighting game franchise Injustice, including their latest installment, Injustice 2! Please familiarize yourself with posting guidelines (below) and welcome to the r/Injustice Community! ![]()
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