PARIS – The timing is exquisite. In the same year that French phenom and San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama won NBA Rookie of the Year and unveiled the heretofore unseen possibilities of ...

Wembanyama seemed to be laboring at times in France’s second game of the Paris Olympics. He finished with 18 points — getting a three-point play that put his team ahead for good 26 seconds ...

Victor Wembanyama may use the Paris Olympics to be the first homegrown sports star to dismantle that dynamic. The 7-foot-4 French-born phenom made San Antonio Spurs NBA games appointment viewing ...

France has never won a gold medal at basketball but they'll be hometown heroes at Paris 2024. The French team also has one of the hottest prospects in the NBA onside: the 7'4" Victor Wembanyama ...

His opponents, as O’Neal made clear, were already on high alert. Wembanyama played for France at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. His team won the silver medal. (Evelyn Hockstein/AP) ...

Wembanyama was born and raised in Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, a western Paris suburb, and has made it a focus this week to introduce his teammates to Parisian culture and the life he led before he ...