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‘ICYMI’ Ep. 1: Top 2023 NBA Draft Prospect Victor Wembanyama Is an ‘Alien’ and Can Reach LeBron James Levels of Hype
Adam Fromal joined the Endgame360 team in 2021 and works primarily with the Sportscasting team. He comes with a wealth of sports writing knowledge, building on a career that started in 2010, and with editing experience dating back to 2016. Adam enjoys covering all facets of the sports industry but has a particular love for basketball and the NBA. He grew up with that as a favorite and made it a career when he covered the NBA for almost a decade as a writer for Bleacher Report. During that time, he covered Denver Nuggets games and ran his own analytics website called NBA Math (a venture that he continues today). Throughout his tenure as an editor, Adam has a few other claims to fame: He helped to provide quality control for the Emmy-nominated "Game of Zones" web series at Bleacher Report and worked as a fact-checker for The Ringer's Mirin Fader on her debut book, Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP. Adam earned his bachelor's degrees from the University of Georgia in Classical Culture, Latin, and Psychology.
All posts by Adam FromalUpdated03 Feb 2023
In case you missed it, here’s the first episode of Sportscasting’s In Case You Missed It.
Victor Wembanyama of Metropolitans 92 took the basketball-watching world by storm in early October, throwing up 73 points, nine three-pointers, 15 rebounds and nine blocked shots on 22-of-44 shooting from the field in two exhibition games against the G League Ignite. Already projected as the No. 1 pick of the 2023 NBA Draft, the French 7-footer (a description that quite literally sells him short) was so utterly dominant that the hype grew to unignorable levels.
In this debut episode of ICYMI, Sportscasting Managing Editor Adam Fromal and resident NBA expert Jack Dougherty dive into that hype, which even comes from LeBron James himself, and break down Wembanyama from all angles.
What’s the most impressive thing about the 18-year-old? How does he compare to other recent uber-prospects such as Anthony Davis and Zion Williamson? Can he really stack up alongside the predraft version of LeBron James, as former NBA standout Richard Jefferson claimed? What’s his best landing spot?
ICYMI covers all that and more.
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