Add two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo to the listing of established stars who’ve come away impressed by dynamic San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama.
Following a slim 125-121 win by the Milwaukee Bucks over the Spurs on Thursday, Antetokounmpo spoke glowingly in regards to the 2023 No. 1 choose, telling reporters he’d “by no means seen something like him.”
“He is an unbelievable expertise. Can rating at will, any time he needs,” Antetokounmpo mentioned through TNT. “He performs the correct method, performs to win. It was nice enjoying towards him.”
In the end, Antetokounmpo bought the higher of the teenager on his twentieth birthday, however the pair placed on a present.
Antetokounmpo paced the Bucks’ effort, recording a game-high 44 factors with 14 rebounds, seven assists, two steals and a block.
In the meantime, Wembanyama completed with 27 factors and two three-pointers, whereas including 9 boards and an unimaginable 5 blocks, together with a rejection of the Bucks star late within the recreation.
The 2 versatile massive males went backwards and forwards, buying and selling emphatic baskets a number of occasions on the evening. Throughout one explicit flurry within the second half, Wembanyama went behind the again to get across the Bucks’ Damian Lillard earlier than throwing down a two-handed dunk. Then, Antetokounmpo responded, rising up on the rookie for a one-handed slam a couple of minutes later.
