Wemby having a monumental summer!

[Bornstellar]

Ok, so you weren't a professional athlete and you were just playing high school sports, cool. I didn't think otherwise. I doubt anyone you played with had a body like Wemby's growing up either. Thinking your experience playing high school level sports is comparable or in any way relevant to a 7 foot teenager playing professional basketball is

Nope, not at all what I said but good job.

7'3 guys having multiple injuries as teens is not a good sign, no matter how you spin it.

But you are just being combative and defensive and ignoring what people are saying.

Please. What your post basically amounts to is "I played high school sports and knew people who did and they never got injured so therefore Wemby having any injuries at 16-17 is a red flag." If you really think your experience is at all or in any way relevant to this discussion then there's no point in discussing with you to begin with. Carry on

[Masigond]

KG looks like he could still play. Maybe not in the NBA but in a 2nd tier foreign league

For a couple of minutes, and then he would need to stop playing because of pain. I think it was Rick Barry who once said that he still could play a couple of minutes in his high 40s because he could still shoot. But he would need to regenerate for weeks after that. Don't underestimate the wear and tear of a professional athlete who played for decades. Those guys' joints are shot, and with age you don't regenerate as good as when you were young. And that's the reason why most of them have to retire in their mid 30s to late 30s, and over 40 year old athletes in those professional sports are a rarity.

[YogurtProducer]

Ok, so you weren't a professional athlete and you were just playing high school sports, cool. I didn't think otherwise. I doubt anyone you played with had a body like Wemby's growing up either. Thinking your experience playing high school level sports is comparable or in any way relevant to a 7 foot teenager playing professional basketball is

Nope, not at all what I said but good job.

7'3 guys having multiple injuries as teens is not a good sign, no matter how you spin it.

But you are just being combative and defensive and ignoring what people are saying.

Please. What your post basically amounts to is "I played high school sports and knew people who did and they never got injured so therefore Wemby having any injuries at 16-17 is a red flag." If you really think your experience is at all or in any way relevant to this discussion then there's no point in discussing with you to begin with. Carry on

I played college sport, and worked with a number of other college athletes, and still have connections in that realm.

But sure.

Fact: people who get injured in their teens are more likely to face re injury. Fact of the matter is the older you get, the more prone to injury you get. Injuries at a younger age IS NOT a good thing

[YogurtProducer]

Uhh were you a professional athlete at that age? No? Were these people you knew also professional athletes at that age? No? didn't think so. Your anecdotal evidence means very little, tbh

I played basketball a lot at that age and sprained my ankles and hurt my knee multiple times. So I don't know what kind of experience you had as a kid but if you play sports a lot, especially as a pro (and especially considering Wemby's body/development) I don't think having some injuries is a big deal. Plenty of dudes in the NBA had major injuries in high school and turned out fine. As far as these major injuries he experienced in 2021 and 2022 - 2021 was two separate injuries, he broke a finger in Nov 2021 and then had a shoulder contusion the following month. And the injury in 2022 was a pulled muscle in his back. None of those are major injuries and given he was an up and coming prodigy, he has always been very careful about managing injuries and making sure he is 100% right before getting back on the court. And again, this is a 16-17 year old kid with a freakish and fast-developing body. Nothing there warrants concern

I swear, I feel like you people want Wemby to fail. Every time he gets brought up, it's always "if he's healthy," "health permitting," "if he doesn't get injured," etc etc when he hasn't had any real injury concerns. This kid isn't Joel Embiid. He played 71 games in his rookie year (could have played more but SA always held him out longer than needed) and was pretty healthy last season until the blood clot. Nothing he has done in the NBA would lead one to believe he is injury prone. Yet he gets talked about like he's Joel Embiid and a ticking time bomb. I'm tired of it.

Listen I hope you are right I just don't understand why you are exceedingly optimistic when history shows that guys that big have injury issues.

Let's hope he stays healthy, but also be reasonable in our expectations.

It's not that I'm exceedingly optimistic, I'm just not going to use past players as an example for Victor. I get the argument, trust me. But for one, there just isn't a large enough sample of dudes his size in NBA history to draw any real conclusions and two, not a single one of them had a body like Wemby nor did they play remotely the same way he does (Sampson maybe aside), and they did not train the same way he has basically his entire life to try to mitigate against injuries. All I'm saying is, blood clot aside, he hasn't had any real basketball injuries in the NBA sans a minor sprained ankle, so until he starts racking up DNPs I'm not going to worry about it

The only sample size we have is not a good one.

[zimpy27]

He's treated the offseason like an anime quest

[MoneyTalks41890]

I saw his IG post yesterday and had the same thought. As long as this guy can avoid some of the arrogance that comes from being this good and this cool this fast, he’s going to become a pop culture fixture in addition to top 3 hooper.

[xb3at band1tx]

I'm definitely a Wemby believer but I don't know if im a post-pop Spurs believer just yet though

[HMFFL]

If Wemby is healthy he's an MVP caliber player...the question is can he stay healthy.

I doubt he is a serious candidate unless the Spurs win 55 games. 43.5 is their # at the moment. Over or under?

He will need a 55 win season.

[HMFFL]

If Wemby is healthy he's an MVP caliber player...the question is can he stay healthy.

He's been pretty healthy throughout his career. The blood clot was a freak, non-basketball injury. He was fully cleared awhile ago and has been practicing in scrimmages with the team. He'll be fine imo

He missed almost 3 months of play in 2021 due to injury and missed the 2nd of his 2022 season due to injury. He was relatively healthy as a rookie and yes you are correct the clots are a non-basketball injury.

Obviously the concern is someone being that tall historically has issues staying healthy, but we've never seen somebody that height with that amount of athleticism and coordination, so hopefully Wemby can be the exception to the norm.

Wemby is the type of talent that I actually say a prayer for. Staying healthy might just be an issue but we need another season to judge.

[Dr Aki]

Hoping the shaolin monks told him to stop playing like a 7 5 shooting guard.

Backtracked right away

And on the Spurs official insta as well

[MrBigShot]

Him being MVP eventually is inevitable. He's hungry

[TheGOATRises007]

If he stays healthy this season, I see him winning MVP.

I think he'll have a monster season.

[zimpy27]

Hoping the shaolin monks told him to stop playing like a 7 5 shooting guard.

Backtracked right away

And on the Spurs official insta as well

Ahhh he was on a good run

[ImmortalD24]

Hoping the shaolin monks told him to stop playing like a 7 5 shooting guard.

Backtracked right away

And on the Spurs official insta as well

My … brother.

Players agree.

[dhsilv2]

I saw his IG post yesterday and had the same thought. As long as this guy can avoid some of the arrogance that comes from being this good and this cool this fast, he’s going to become a pop culture fixture in addition to top 3 hooper.

Is that's a designer hospital gown? And instead of custom making it...did he just buy two and pay someone to sow on the bottom?

[chuck_wagon44]

KG looks like he could still play. Maybe not in the NBA but in a 2nd tier foreign league

Who is Wemby playing tag in the sand with?

Hakeem looks like he can still play

[balrog27]

Personally I dont like him travelling to a new place every other week, adjusting to a new timezone / schedule etc. there's something said about just keeping quiet, and working on your game, espcially for him, he dont need more skills, he needs to work on his body, just getting godo sleep and nutrition and grinding in the gym should be a bigger priority than to speak to hakeen or KG.