Victor Wembanyama stands in at 7-5 ... The only No. 1 pick taller than Wembanyama is Yao Ming, who measured a towering 7-foot-6. You can find the tallest No. 1 picks in NBA Draft history below.

Scott Rafferty is an experienced NBA journalist who first started writing for The Sporting News in 2017. There are few things he appreciates more than a Nikola Jokic no-look pass, Klay Thompson ...

Wemby’s first 5 games of his career shooting the ball: – As expected, quite efficient in the paint. – He’s attempted 8 pull-up 3s. Just 1 shy of Vassell (team leader). Wemby is 7’3 ...

Victor Wembanyama, the 18-year-old French big man ... the tallest player selected in the lottery of the NBA Draft since Yao Ming was drafted in 2002. 4. No one as big as Wembanyama can shoot ...

Wembanyama is the most exciting prospect to ... of the past generation was that of another unicorn, the great Yao Ming, who, as skilled as he was, kept breaking his foot from having to move ...

Victor Wembanyama is widely regarded as the best ... The most recent was Yao Ming. Most Games by NBA Player Listed 7-4 or Taller Wembanyama is listed at 238 pounds on the Metropolitans 92 ...

NEW YORK, Oct 25 (Reuters) - France's Victor Wembanyama possesses a talent that defies comparison, retired great Yao Ming told Reuters, as the seven-foot four-inch (2.24-metre) rookie makes his ...

It has been 21 years since the Houston Rockets made history by picking Yao Ming with the No. 1 pick in the draft. This was significant because he was the first player who had neither played high ...

Victor Wembanyama is months away from being drafted ... tallest person he ever played against was either Manute Bol or Yao Ming,” the younger O’Neal said. “I don’t think there is a player ...

Yao Ming's one of the best big men to ever have ... And at the forefront of this movement stands Victor Wembanyama, a player so unique he's rewriting the rulebook, both on the court and in the ...

Yao Ming was 7-foot-6 ... but San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama can apparently do things that are inhuman. He shoots like Steph Curry and dribbles like Allen Iverson.

Of all the show-stopping things Victor Wembanyama, the French basketball ... None of them–Mark Eaton, Rik Smits, Shawn Bradley, Manute Bol, Yao Ming, Ralph Sampson, and Marjanovic—possessed ...