{"id":2789,"date":"2024-08-04T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/victor-wembanyama-frances-olympic-and-nba-generational-talent\/"},"modified":"2024-08-04T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T18:21:11","slug":"victor-wembanyama-frances-olympic-and-nba-generational-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/victor-wembanyama-frances-olympic-and-nba-generational-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama: France’s Olympic and NBA generational talent"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Wembanyama’s early dominance has led to many predicting he will be the next ‘face of the NBA’, external<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is a title usually bestowed on someone who makes significant waves off the court as well – which ‘Wemby’ is doing.<\/p>\n

He teamed up with luxury French fashion brand Louis Vuitton, signing as a brand ambassador at the start of 2024.<\/p>\n

He has also bagged a shoe deal with Nike which is rumoured to be worth more than $100m (\u00a384.2m), putting himself at the forefront of basketball culture.<\/p>\n

And with the Spurs taking on the Indiana Pacers in 2025’s NBA Paris game, Wembanyama will be front and centre, especially given it takes place during Paris fashion week.<\/p>\n

A player who, in daily life, has to duck to avoid most ceilings does not seem to have one for his career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Wembanyama’s early dominance has led to many predicting he will be the next ‘face of the NBA’, external. This is a title usually bestowed on someone who makes significant waves off the court as well – which ‘Wemby’ is doing. He teamed up with luxury French fashion brand Louis Vuitton, signing as a brand ambassador […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}