You can watch Lionel Messi in Paris if you’re willing to pay enough. But you can only see the NBA’s future No. 1 draft pick Victor Wembanyama if you’re lucky. How Wembymania became one of the hottest tickets in sports.
Victor Wembanyama is expected to be the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. Until then, he’s packing arenas all over France.julien de rosa/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesLEVALLOIS-PERRET, France—The hottest ticket in French sports these days is for a sleepy gym on the outskirts of Paris, where basketball players duck under doorways and fans use halftime as a collective smoke break.
Supporters come to games just 2,800 at a time, because that’s all the building here can fit. But those who do get inside have all made the trip for the same reason: a 7-foot-3 teenager named . At 19, he’s the brightest NBA prospect since LeBron James, and soon, he’ll be on his way out of France.
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