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, along with the four-time defensive player of the year in Gobert, now lead France into the 2024 Paris Olympics with a chance to make a deep run. France finished with the silver medal ...

Tomorrow night, though, Wembanyama and the Spurs face off against the Indiana Pacers in Paris, France, the country that Wembanyama calls home. Many predictions could be made on the final score ...

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 ...

Victory Wembanyama took over the NBA by storm in 2023-24. Now, he looks to do the same at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he will be playing once again in front of his home country. The No. 1 ...

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) ...

In his short career, Victor Wembanyama has taken the basketball ... Pacers in the first of two games at the Accor Arena in Paris, with the seven-foot-three center giving home fans a lot to marvel ...

NANTERRE, France — This is Victor Wembanyama’s old gym, on the outskirts of Paris where he played as a freakishly tall young boy, and then, as a teenage professional for the first time.

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 ...

The trip is a homecoming for the Spurs' biggest star, and Victor Wembanyama unveiled two basketball courts in his hometown of Le Chesnay (a suburb just 10 miles from the heart of Paris ...