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I dated one of the dozens of writers on Dr. Who. We had an ugly break up. Ten years later, I see a new alien enemy whose character name is my last name.
Victor Wembanyama
Wemby, Alien
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Victor Wembanyama ( WEM-bən-YAH-mə; French: [viktɔʁ wɛmbanjama]; born 4 January 2004), nicknamed "Wemby" and "the Alien", is a French professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected first overall by the Spurs in the 2023 NBA draft and is considered one of the best basketball prospects ever due to his rare combination of height, agility, and skills. Wembanyama began his professional career at age 15 with Nanterre 92 of the LNB Pro A in 2019. Two years later, he moved to ASVEL and won the Pro A title in his only season with the team. In the 2022–23 season, Wembanyama signed with Metropolitans 92 and became the youngest player to win the Pro A MVP award, while earning Pro A Best Defender honours and leading the league in scoring, rebounds and blocks. He was unanimously named an LNB All-Star twice, winning the All-Star Game MVP once, and was a three-time Pro A Best Young Player. Wembanyama also plays for the French national team, with whom he won a silver medal at the 2024 Olympics. At the youth level, he led his team to two silver medals, including at the 2021 FIBA Under-19 World Cup, where he set the FIBA record for blocks per game in a single tournament. Following a historic rookie season in the NBA in which he led the league in blocks per game, Wembanyama was unanimously named the 2024 NBA Rookie of the Year, finished second in the 2024 Defensive Player of the Year voting to compatriot Rudy Gobert, and became the first rookie ever and youngest player ever to be named to the All-Defensive First Team. During the 2025–26 NBA season, Wembanyama won his first Defensive Player of the Year award, becoming the youngest and first unanimous winner of the award. Wembanyama is also the first and only player to win multiple regular season NBA awards unanimously (Defensive Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year).
Career
- 2004Born
- 2019Joined Nanterre 92
- 2020Joined Centre Fédéral de Basket-ball
- 2021Joined ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne
- 2022Joined Metropolitans 92
- 2023Joined San Antonio Spurs
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Le Chesnay
- •Citizenship: France
- •Known as: basketball player
- •Sport: basketball
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Victor Wembanyama's poster dunk led Nate Robinson to question his NBA future
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Who are Jayden Quaintance and Tarris Reed Jr.? Meet the Spurs' 2026 draft picks set to bolster Victor Wembanyama's frontcourt
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Spurs just made life easier for Victor Wembanyama after signing Tobias Harris
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Alien 1: We believe that they must have understood their computers to be conduits to gods Alien 2: why? Alien 1: well, even though their planet was overheating, they kept generating and feeding their computers more energy Alien 2: interesting Alien 1: in fact, even when their planet started running out of a necessary component of their biology, water, they would forgo it themselves to make offerings of it to their computers Alien 2: truly one of the weirder extinct lifeforms we've found
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What Victor Wembanyama’s brother can’t ignore about the San Antonio Spurs star
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Victor Wembanyama returns to spotlight at Louis Vuitton show during Paris Fashion Week
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Spurs give Victor Wembanyama some much-needed help in the paint with draft additions
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Victor Wembanyama models Louis Vuitton's Spring-Summer 2027 collection ahead of Pharrell runway show
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I already recommended this book here, but I really really really enjoyed "What We Are Seeking" by Cameron Reed (and I finished it while travelling last week, so I'm re-recommending it!) Fantastic alien ecosystem biology, lovely characters, super interesting far
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Oliver Tree, ‘Alien Boy’ and ‘Life Goes On’ Musician, Dies at 32 in Helicopter Crash
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How Alien Conspiracy Theory Got Respectable — and Brought America Back to Magical Thinking
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Spurs vs. Thunder: Victor Wembanyama reaches first NBA Finals as San Antonio takes down defending champs
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Victor Wembanyama turns Game 6 into a statement win and Magic Johnson can’t stay silent
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Victor Wembanyama's 'desire to meet the moment' propels Spurs to Game 7 vs Thunder
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Victor Wembanyama didn’t speak after Game 5. His Game 6 performance spoke volumes
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Random positive thing: I recently saw someone on the fediverse recommend the scifi book "What We Are Seeking" by Cameron Reed and I'm about 1/4 of the way in and totally loving it. The worldbuilding and alien biology is fantastic, and the humans are lovely and interesting.
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Victor Wembanyama, Spurs stifle Thunder in Game 6 rout, set up winner-take-all Game 7 in Western Conference finals
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How NBC is using inspiration from its past to bring Victor Wembanyama, NBA to life
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Victor Wembanyama skips postgame media session after Spurs’ Game 5 loss to Thunder
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Victor Wembanyama made passionate pregame speech, then spoke with his play to force Game 7
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