After circling each other for years, Victor Wembanyama and Chet Holmgren will be judged heavily in the way they perform head-to-head throughout their professional careers.
Context: AS HOLMGREN MET Mrs. Wembanyama, he collegially brought up the one previous time they indeed had all been together in the same place. It was in Riga, Latvia, in July 2021 at the U19 FIBA World Cup final. Team USA had beaten Team France 83-81 in a hotly contested game during which Wembanyama had frustratingly fouled out in the fourth quarter.
It is only the worst basketball memory of Wembanyama’s life – “Just thinking about it makes my jaw clench,” he has said – and one of the great accomplishments of Holmgren’s.
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Context: AS HOLMGREN MET Mrs. Wembanyama, he collegially brought up the one previous time they indeed had all been together in the same place. It was in Riga, Latvia, in July 2021 at the U19 FIBA World Cup final. Team USA had beaten Team France 83-81 in a hotly contested game during which Wembanyama had frustratingly fouled out in the fourth quarter.
It is only the worst basketball memory of Wembanyama’s life – “Just thinking about it makes my jaw clench,” he has said – and one of the great accomplishments of Holmgren’s.