Victor Wembanyama: the NBA Rookie of the Year from another planet
Last year's No. 1 overall pick, the San Antonio Spurs star is the first unanimous ROTY since 2016.
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00:00Every day I try to push harder and to do more, get more achievements, more records, more wins.
00:07The next day I always tell myself that I didn't do enough and to push me even more.
00:20How would you rate his first season?
00:22Excellent.
00:23There's not enough I can say about Wimby.
00:25He's coming down and hitting those crazy threes and I could go on and on about the highlights and the blocks and everything that he's done.
00:32But we've just truly embraced him here and we're excited for the future.
00:46I'm not sure you'll have to ask him if he was planning on leading the league in blocks when he came, but that was like a requirement.
00:53We wanted him at the basket and we want him rebounding and blocking shots.
00:58He's made me understand that he has those Tim Duncan qualities of innate basketball IQ and a fire that he wants to be the best.
01:23It might sound cliche, but he has that dog in him.
01:27I think he's like, I'm here, I've arrived and there's nothing anybody can do about it.
01:30He's gotten better offensively, defensively throughout the year, but I think it's the mindset that he has now that there's nobody on the court that can mess with me and that's what we need.
01:38I don't want to put no limit on it, but he can get a defensive player of the year and MVPs.
01:42We haven't seen nothing like that. We've seen things close, but not like that.
01:46I mean, he's an amazing player.
01:48My first impression isn't that I exceeded any expectations, it's that I should have done more.
01:57He is and will continue to be special.