San Antonio Spurs Receive: C Mo Bamba, G/F Max Christie, 2024 Second-Round Pick (LAL), 2027 Second-Round Pick (LAL)
Los Angeles Lakers Receive: F Doug McDermott
There is no blueprint for building around Victor Wembanaya. In fact, there’s no blueprint for Wembanyama at all.
This is an unprecedented prospect. If you built Wembanyama on 2K, you might delete your player. He’d be too unrealistic.
This is a roughly 7’3 big man who plays like a guard. Wembanyama has the fluidity and ball-handling to create shots for himself.
Meanwhile, he’s got the size to be an elite rim protector on the other end of the floor.
NBA NEWS & TRADE RUMORS: Doug McDermott, San Antonio Spurs & Los Angeles Lakers Updates
Can the Spurs even fail in building around him? Probably. This is the most anticipated NBA prospect since James, but even building around James isn’t foolproof.
Is trading McDermott really the right first move?