[Highlight] Victor Wembanyama: “I’ll be in the dunk contest one day”
Save the dunk contest, Vic!
He’s either doing what Bron didn’t, or following in Bron’s footsteps by saying he’ll do it and then never doing it
Cinema either way tbh
Nah he said he wants to win every all-star weekend contest, more precisely he said he had a checklist of things to do/win in the NBA
I love him so much
Already won this dudes heart lol
Same
It would be so awesome if he became both the best player in the NBA and won the dunk contest. Just shove lebron’s stupid face in it. He talked about participating for like a decade.
Lebron derangement syndrome needs to be studied
I mean, I love him, but he unquestionably ruined the dunk contest by making it uncool to participate as a star. Now it’s laughed at universally. Whether or not it was for injury prevention, he legitimately teased participating for years. That is factually correct. Look it up of you are too young. Before him, the best players and best dunkers participated. Now, guys like Ja or Ant couldn’t be bothered.
I remember LeBron’s entire career, I am quite familiar with the meme of him being blamed for literally everything. “Just shove lebron’s stupid face in it” is a great example of the derangement when it comes to talking about that man
and I know that if Wemby ends up deciding not to compete, nobody will treat it the way they did LeBron. Something about him that just warped people’s minds. Like I said, needs to be studied. Not sure what it was.
Good job not answering to anything. This is about the dunk contest. But feel free to build your straw men.
I am in fact talking about the dunk contest when I say
and I know that if Wemby ends up deciding not to compete, nobody will treat it the way they did LeBron.
Yeah he could still not do it
As he ages he’ll be more focused on the main thing and staying healthy
Old enough to know that. Never know tho
He broke the skills challenge, he’ll break the dunk and 3pt contests
Would be super cool to see superstar players start competing in this stuff. Seems like Curry and Dame are recruiting guys for the 3pt contest so it would be sick to see Vic start recruiting guys like Ant to do the dunk contest with him
Ant in general kinda seems like he’ll get 100% full effort involved in anything if someone just challenges him to do so
After saving the all star game Wemby will save the dunk contest
Or erase it from existence like the skills challenge
I love that throughout Dame’s dominance, Steph has just been lurking like Thanos. The year he had the contest against Ionescu, he beat Dame’s score.
No disrespect to Lillard of course, but I think everybody knows he’s still the final boss, and I hope we get to see him come out for it at least one more time.
Tbf dame has competed in 4 straight contests (winning 3 of the 4). Hardly his fault Steph hasn’t been competing.
Dame is 3-3 in contests and Steph is 2-5 by my count
Only twice have they competed in the same year, 2014 (Marco Belinelli won) and 2019 (Joe Harris won).
edit: Oh and how can I forget.. he just did it in sweatpants with a torn Achilles lmao.
For sure, Dame is the king of the contest at this point, but even he has said in the past that Steph is the best shooter of all time. Seeing them go head to head at least one more time is something everyone should want.
Jaylen Brown did it and all he got for his time was being clowned on because he didn’t have good enough dunks. If people want stars back in the contest they’ll have to accept they’re gonna be worse than guys like McClung
Tbf I’d really hope Ant and Wemby are much better then whatever Brown was doing
Ant needs to do it, and not do bullshit like jump over people. He just needs to go out there and posterize mf, have them just jump to try to block in and dunk in their faces. That’s what people want to see. Put his nuts in shaqs face and yam on him.
Way to understand the moment bro - he’s so important
Wemby is taking being one of the faces of the league seriously and I really like it. Wanted guys to play hard during the All-Star Game, they did when he did. Now hopefully he can get some stars to sign up for the dunk contest.
Wemby extracurricular to do list:
save the all star game ✅
save the dunk contest ❓
save the NBA tanking problem ❓
i mean yea the spurs got wemby for tanking so itll be awhile before spurs start tanking again
Maybe people will start caring about the dunk contest then
FYI. Vic never talked BS. He might seem casual when he says it but he’s always dead-ass serious.
Man I’m loving Wemby, he’s ultra competitive on everything he does. I legitimately think he’s gonna be the main catalyst for players taking the all star weekend events seriously with how hard he tries in the all star game and even the skills competition lmao.
He’s a great next gen superstar for the league in the post LeBron, Steph, and KD era
If Wemby actually enters the dunk contest, Ant has to participate too. It’ll be the biggest dunk contest duel since MJ vs Dominique.
I believe him too lol
That be entertaining lol
Do some Javale McGee throwbacks.
Javale had some incredible contest dunks
He and Dwight are the reasons why I don’t understand ppl not wanting centers in the dunk contest.
Would be cool and could encourage other stars to participate, but really hard for bigs, let alone someone 7 foot 4 inches, to make impressive dunks.
Between the legs on a 12ft rim would go hard
There should be some simulated defense allowed in the dunk contest good in game dunkers don’t automatically translate well to the dunk contest. Very rare that a flashy dunk in game will be a 48 or higher in a dunk contest given how negative fans are now. Not to mention who would say “hey what if I poster someone?” And have a teammate or some other player participate in it.
Although Wemby’s windmills are fun as hell. Those long ass arms of his spinning around and dunking is fun to watch.
good in game dunkers don’t automatically translate well to the dunk contest.
That’s something that was mentioned about Lebron.
Ant has always said he doesn’t want to do it because he’s not a dunk contest dunker, he’s an in game dunker. I think this could be infesting to try out
Dwight howard did a 12 ft dunk iirc.
Watch Vic’s highlights of tonight’s game then come back
I normally agree but not with Wemby. It would be comical seeing him doing stuff we’ve never seen before and make it look so easy
I believe you Wembs
With Wembanyama’s wingspan, we might see some really unique dunks.
We are asking this man to now save every part of all star weekend??
Victor is our hero
Wembys about to pull out the jump dribble between the legs dunk(imo his most aesthetic dunk)
And just like that, Victor Wembanyama accidentally saved the dunk contest.
Hes just gonna put the rim at like fucking 15 feet or something and do windmills
Lisan Al Gaib
Vic is single handedly saving all star weekend
He’s gonna be the new obstacle instead of jumping over Shaq
Dont give me hope Vic
Victor is unique enough to be on the Harlem Globetrotters.
Victor the Messaiah Wembenyama
A man of the people 🔥
Wemby vs Sharpe would feed families
Will the dunk contest be there tho
As the Backstreet Boys once said…..
“Quit playin games with my heart”
imagine they just hadn’t invited him lol
I hope he doesn’t LeBron us
If he raises the hoop to 12 ft and does a free throw dunk thatd be pretty nasty
i don’t think the spurs would let him do it lol
Bro starting to sound mexican
I know he didn’t live up to expectations, but when people talk about stars that ducked the dunk contest, they never seem to mention Andrew Wiggins. That man was attempting reverse 720 dunks in practice and just, never accepted an invite. We could’ve gotten a classic from him.
Wemby > LeBron
Is it just me or does it seem cheap for the tallest dude in the league to do the dunk contest? Like yeah we guessed that you could do cool dunks, you only have to put your arms up to dunk 😅
No you won’t Vic and it’s okay lol. That thing is dead
Only because star players don’t want to do it
The second guys like Wemby and Ant etc start doing this stuff, it will become immensely popular again. This is a great thing.
Theres way more injury risk in a dunk contest that asks guys to amp it up every year. Also developing interesting dunks is a skill in itself that requires practice and creativity that adds zero to your actual game, unlike the 3-point contest. Just kill it or make it a non-NBA player event
Yeah because skill doesnt correlate to being a good dunker, like anthony edwards has said it multiple times but the only flashy dunk he can do is a windmill.
Yeah if they actually do it lol