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doesn't feel like the future of the NBA.
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He's a version of basketball that we're
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not going to fully understand for like
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25 years. What I mean by that is some
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we'll never see this again. And I think
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you can say we've never seen this yet.
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But I tend to believe that not that he's
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not special or historically special, but
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where the sport is evolving to. He has
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so many incredible assets and yes, he is
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but a guy who's over 7 foot tall that
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runs and jumps and shoots like a wing
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player is kind of how the sport has
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evolved over the last 25 years. The
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difference is somebody at his size, 76,
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who used to be a pretty slow, lumbering,
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feed it into the post and hope his
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height just can do something like a Yao
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Ming, a Shawn Bradley, etc. has turned
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into well imagine Yao Ming could run the
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point. Imagine Shawn Bradley could shoot
1:19
the three from the logo.
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That's that which is mindblowing. Not to
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minimize what his historical context is
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already because he's so young and the
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first to do this, but guys who are
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really tall are being taught at an early
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age how to ball handle,
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how to shoot the outside game much more
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than the inside game.
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Shaq would not be the type of player he
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was if he was coming up through AAU
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today. just wouldn't happen.
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differentiator though is that Victor
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Wemanyama knew at like 10 years old, I'm
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going to the NBA and I'm ready for that.
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This is a guy that grew up in France and
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speaks perfect English in his early 20s.
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Perfect. Perfect English.
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comports himself, composes himself with
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total comfort when it comes to his
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second language. And he did it because
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he knew my future's the NBA. I'm
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learning English and learning it really,
2:27
really, really well. I will be polished
2:29
and comfortable and ready when that time
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comes. He just everything was engineered
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for him to be an NBA star.
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You know, Joic is again another European
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player who's a big man who was taught
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ball handling skills and shooting skills
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This is where basketball will go. It's
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just that Victor Emanyama is the first
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of this kind and is so elite at
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everything that it feels like we'll
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never see it again. But I I'm not saying
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we'll see a Victor Wemanana technically
3:04
again, but I do think that this is this
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kind of crazy iteration of basketball
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where the taller guys
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will be taught at an earlier age the
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type of skill set that he possesses and
3:20
already had. He's just supercharged it
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all because of his mentality, his
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intelligence, his smarts, and does seem
3:28
like he's got a killer instinct as well.
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That game one in OKC was outrageous.
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Absolutely outrageous. I expect more of
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that. And it feels like
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if he wants to be on a destruction path,
3:45
can do that to anybody and can do that
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for as long as he wants.
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that thorough dominance, that choosing
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to destroy you dynamic
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that's this unique historical
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that is so so so rare and you have to
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appreciate it when you see
