The 7'4" Kid Nobody Believed In: Victor Wembanyama's Road to the NBA

Before Victor Wembanyama was the youngest Defensive Player of the Year in NBA history, he was a 7-foot-4 teenager in France taking a path nobody had ever seen before. While American prospects dominated college basketball, Wembanyama stayed in Europe. He played professionally as a 14-year-old. He faced grown men instead of high school kids. And by the time NBA scouts saw him, he had become something the sport had never witnessed. This is the story of how the most unique physical talent in basketball history went from being called "too tall to succeed" to becoming the #1 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft — without ever playing a single game of American college basketball.