Victor Wembanyama, leaps and bounds from French basketball to the NBA

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Summary.

From the height of his 2m21, Victor Wembanyama embodies the hope of world basketball.

Aged only 19, the young prodigy will join the most famous basketball championship in the world in June: the NBA, in the United States.

Champion of France with Asvel, the Lyon club chaired by Tony Parker, Victor Wembanyama is currently playing with the Metropolitans 92. It is in the colors of this team that the basketball player played two matches in Las Vegas in October 2022. Since , even the legend of American basketball LeBron James is impressed by the young Frenchman whom he describes as a "UFO", and the NBA broadcasts live all the meetings of the Mets 92 in the French Championship.

For Code source, Julien Lesage and Adrien Chantegrelet, journalists from the Parisian sports department, paint the portrait of Victor Wembanyama.

Credits

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Editorial management: Pierre Chausse - Editor-in-chief: Jules Lavie - Reporter: Ambre Rosala - Production: Raphaël Pueyo, Emma Jacob and Thibault Lambert - Production and mixing: Julien Montcouquiol - Music: François Clos, Audio Network, Epidemic Sound - Identity graphics: Upian - Archives: Sport 365, NBA, BeinSports.

About Source Code.

Code source is the daily news podcast from Le Parisien.

Stories told by editorial journalists or by those who have experienced them directly.

An appointment carried by the presenter Jules Lavie and the reporter Ambre Rosala, to be found from Monday to Friday from 6 p.m. on LeParisien.fr or on the main listening platforms.

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