Victor Wembanyama leaving the hotel today
You really get an appreciation for how tall he is when he’s near regular people and not other professionally tall people.
nah even with other nba players, he makes them look short
all I can say is either Kelly Olynyk is 6’10 (not 7’) or Victor is 7’7 lol
makes Kelly look like a teenager
Victor is easily 7’5” in shoes, maybe pushing 7’6”
Kelly O is probably more like 6’11”
Crazy the difference in that would be like steph trying to guard a 6-8 wing
this is why KAT is doing some truly unbelievable shit
It is possible he might have grown a bit from his 7’4 height, he does look a bit taller these days. He is only 22, I’ve seen people grow taller at 20⁄21 before
Shaolin stretching technique
Alien
Teenage lunch lady
yeah, he made olynyk look small yesterday.
Teenagers are tall nowadays, at least from what I’ve seen
KAT is a real 7’0 (he’s taller than many other 7’0 so he’s either 7’1-2 or… 7’0 and many others are inflating up) and there’s definitely more than a 4 inch height gap between him and Wemby.
7’6” in shoes, he stood face to face with Tacko Fall who measured 7’7” in shoes and was maybe a 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 an inch shorter than Fall.
What do you mean “nah” - it’s quite a comparison
Fox is 6’3 and he looks 5’6 next to him lol
Also when he’s not near amateur tall people
How does he fit in any car ever? Or plane?
Only G-Wagons and G5s
He squeezes in like the tall man in the small car in that one Simpsons episode
He walked by me in OKC and looked like a fucking Kaiju towering thru the arena 🤣
I only imagine you are looking like this meme
I was getting shirts made down the block from here and you could see him from the corner.
Imagine waiting there for 8 hours just to see him for 3 seconds
Especially when he’s wearing that Canadian tuxedo
Doesn’t help that nypd is often professionally short
How does this dude take a shower in the hotel. They got extra extra tall? or he just sits on the ground?
He makes Stephon Castle look like a toddler. And Castle is 6’6.
I didn’t realize he was canadian
Best tuxedo around 😤
TIL “French-Canadian” and “French/Canadian” are entirely different concepts
I thought the denim fit was an olive branch to his longtime rival Britney Spears
Victor Denimyama
Underrated comment
The guy behind has the complete opposite build lol.
Twins 2: in theaters summer 2027!
52x28 vs 28x52 pants
That guy is 6’8”
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Like someone’s first day making people and he completely missed and then overcorrected
The duality of man
I wonder who makes more. Wemby’s tailor or Cam Newton’s haberdasher?
Definitely the haberdasher. Wemby’s tailor gets to keep most of the cloth so he might actually get a discount.
Yeah, there’s surprisingly little material left when live whole peacocks are the medium.
Wemby is a Louis Vuitton house ambassador, he’s not paying for the clothes nor the tailoring to his measurements.
I mean somebody’s getting paid for tailoring these clothes regardless of who’s paying.
It turns out it was us the consumers, who pay all along.
Where do people get the energy to stalk players outside of their hotel, lol.
I mean, it’s nyc so people might just be walking by lol
More likely paparazzi come so the hotel sets up security fences. People walking by get interested and start to form a crowd.
Exactly how it happens. I live near a popular movie premier theater in NYC and the stans + pap show up early then the crowd quickly grows from everyone else who have nothing better to do. Kinda fun to see the stars on the sidewalk, but honesty more fun to see the superfans/teenagers geek out.
I mean they clearly aren’t. This happens at every hotel players stay at in every city. Even the small markets, obviously not as many but it’s a thing.
Yet everybody here is watching their video
They’re staying in the ritz nomad which is in an incredibly high foot traffic area so that contributes to it. Also all the teams that the Knicks play stay in this hotel so it’s not exactly a secret
what do you guys think his inseam is?
How tall is Alvarado? That’s your answer
28x52
Because of his length he seems slimmer in the waist than he actually is. I’d say 32×52.
52 is crazy. I am 6’10 and wear 34x40 with pretty long legs for my height. He’s 6in taller than me so I’d say probably a 44
Wemby is so tall that someone saying they’re six inches shorter than him still comes across as a huge flex.
6’10” is crazy though. I can only imagine how much it sucks to shop for clothes.
Unhemmed levi’s is the method
Homie needs to worry about the wind
So basically raw selvedge but you just dont fold up the cuffs
Cupping or no cupping.
counting or not counting gang violence
Probably at least 8in
44
He’s the kinda guy you only find in Manhattan. If he wasn’t a basketball player, that’s exactly where he’d belong
lol
Hopefully he is a distant second most booed tonight by Knicks fans.
I feel like people really like Wemby, of course you always boo the other team but I don’t think anyone has a vendetta against him personally
I was in the crowd outside the hotel and I can tell you no one hates wemby. We clown him out of respect but no one has any bad blood towards him.
Was going to say, booing isn’t a dislike for a player. It’s banter. unless that was Trae Young, then it’s a mix of banter and bad blood. But more banter
I will say though that if Wemby hits a game winner or something I feel it would quickly turn into a trae young situation lol
he’d have to hit a FEW this series for them to hate him that much ha!
that bow will always be one of my favorite moments of a player just being theatrical but not corny. it was perfect as a spectator
Unless you’re Trae Young you don’t get booed that much at the Garden
The denim for two of his arms can clothe a family
Imagine waiting around, lurking outside a fancy hotel just to get a glimpse of a star athlete… then boo’ing them.
Like you really didn’t have anything better to do 3 hours before tipoff on a Monday?
You obviously do not New York.
Lmfao I got off work and walked right to the hotel for this exact reason, like, yes.
Edit*
Also this is the benefit of living in new york. Its why we all live here. To be within walking distance of stuff like this.
You can go boo athletes outside of their hotel for pretty much any game anywhere. Nothing particularly unique to New York.
Not within walking distance
This is common fan behaviour, Wemby’s smiling because he knows it’s fun
I’ll never understand redditors who constantly keep trying to push booing as some vile thing
I mean, can’t afford the tickets, can’t attend watch parties due to the president … the least fans can do is pester the star player of the opposing team.
dude is on a sports sub wondering why fans are behaving like fans
Literally what do you expect?
Are you expecting cheers? Silence?
What do you want them to do, suck him off?
You gotta be 6’2” to ride that rollercoaster in the first place.
At this time of day you could get a bigger crowd for less
It’s weird to see spurs fans on their sub being upset by this and calling it classless. Do they know we are New York? This is a standard greeting!
I feel like this is some made up outrage by you. Vic is smiling at the end of the video and enjoying it and every comment in here is positive other than yours.
They are literally reposting every interaction in their sub and whining. Someone kept yelling “Knicks in 4!” To their coach when he was walking by with his family and they are acting like they were physically assaulted. Someone said it was harassment and stalking. They are weak. I’m a Celtics fan and Knicks in 4 would be a pleasure to watch.
Yelling at a dude walking on the sidewalk with his children is stupid regardless of context.
?? I’m sorry but it’s weird when someone’s with their family
Knicks and Celtics fans agreeing is insane but it has happened to me about 4 times this offseason. I promised to not say Fuck Boston for the ECF last time this happened. I’ll hold off on saying this until the season starts back 🫡
This is just your good karma coming back around. All it took all this time was one Knicks fan not saying fuck Boston.
Responded to wrong person my bad
As a petty Pacers fan, I appreciate the epic levels of pettiness required to spend your afternoon outside of that hotel just waiting to boo Wemby for 10 seconds.
This isn’t even the video linked in the spurs subreddit.
I thought this was pretty polite all things considered
For New York standards, fairly tame
Us older heads know that this kind of jawing is just part of the game, it ain’t that serious. I’ll take a New Yorker chatting game shit over Angelenos’ 24⁄7 sense of superiority any day.
Anyone expecting us to get an ovation in the middle of the series by the away fans is dreaming.
Being rich and giant is probably pretty cool. Every piece of clothing you own was made specifically for you.
Rich average height people can do that too what w being rich and not be gandered at.
…or you can be rich and McGregor and have all of your clothes custom made to fit like a sausage casing.
He gets hand me downs from Tacko Fall
Every fit he wears for the camera is tailor made by LV
Fr, his clothes look so well tailored.
He’s an ambassador for Louis Vuitton. He’s probably contractually obligated to have a dope fit every pre-game
I wish I was contractually obligated to wear custom tailored LV. What a life
Its the only way he can get clothes that fit. Custom almost everything.
Idgaf if the Spurs are down and he hasn’t been playing 100%, he’s still the most fun guy to watch on the court. Brunson has been a very close second.
KAT has been better/more fun than Brunson
That’s fair, but I said more fun to watch not better
Canadien Tuxedo
French Canadian Tuxedo?
Ludicrously capacious bag
He didn’t realize there’s a no bag policy tonight.
That’s just enough for a fresh shirt and a pair of underwear.
elite reference
I was saying Boo-urns
Like how does this dude sleep in a hotel with standard beds
Bill Simmons had an e-mailer ask this question so he reached out to some sources and apparently teams have bed extenders or something along those lines.
Interesting, thank you
I worked in hotels in the past and when we had Yao Ming we had to place a second bed in his room so it could fit his whole body lol.
Man can see the top of the bus 🤣
He should come out to NAS hate me now just to play 5D chess. What they gonna do boooooo Nas?
Oh shit, I forgot all about San Antonio playing cartoon music during the Knicks introductions… what are we gonna get for the Spurs tonight?
This would be a predicament
Am I trippin or is wemby tall af?
Nah you’re trippin
It must be the angle
Big if true.
Taking time out of your day to go somewhere and boo/heckle someone is definitely one way to use free time
Subliminal diss to Shai wearing a Canadian tuxedo
They treating Wemby like he MJ (Jackson) camping out at hotels.
Do they get him a special bed or something? No way he sleeps comfortably in a hotel
They extend the bottom. Ankles aren’t as picky as spines.
That’s a lot of denim
honestly the energy around Wemby is different fr. was at a game earlier this season and you just can’t take your eyes off him even during warmups. moves like a guard at that height it’s actually insane
This hits so different. The hype around him is completely deserved.
it’s wild to see it up close. the way he moves at that height doesn’t make sense. and his instincts on defense are already elite — changes the whole offense’s calculus when he’s in the paint
fr though. saw him in person at a game in November and it’s one of those things you can’t really understand til you see it. the way he moves at that height just doesn’t compute with what your brain expects.
Thanks for taking the whole world supply of denim, you dick.
The French Canadian tuxedo.
Dude has the most insane aura NGL
What a handsome young man.
22 year old kid getting the Michael Jackson treatment.
honestly love seeing this. man’s been locked in all postseason but this Finals series feels different. the way he’s adjusting to the Knicks switching defense every game has been fun to watch. Game 3 gonna be big
Lol. Waiting outside for him and booing at the same time.
Knicks fans:
“BOOOOOO” 😍 “BOOOOOOOoOoOOoo” 😍😍 “BooOoooooo…” 😍😍😍😍😍
hes a super model
Where da fuq do you buy jeans that length?
Holy smokes.
Custom, for sure.
Denim Dan
Just more motivation!
We walked right by there on our way to the airport just before they came out. If I wasn’t heading to the airport, I would’ve stuck around to see them.
I didn’t know he’s Canadian
Cant believe they had security and a barricade for someone
No rotten apples or french baguettes? NYC fans are getting soft as ice cream.
Canadian wemby bout to go off
Feel like they chose the hotel because of the 12 foot doors.
bro is out here looking like he is on a morning stroll heading to a must win game lol
hopefully my precious Jazz can get booed in NY next year
is he single
No, his girlfriend is cute and tiny
damn. im not single either but im happy for them 🤣
Are MFs really that desperate to wait outside a hotel to heckle? People man, I swear. Anything for a brush with fame…
Which hotel is this? Looks like it’s near Chinatown?
Those jeans must be like 32x52 lol
Space Marine assigned to planet heading out to meeting with Imperial Governor
Does this confirm that he is playing tonight?
Duncan esque
You know what? I hope the kid got a good nights rest. He’s gonna need it.
I cant imagine waiting outside a hotel to see people walk past, for a few secs
I dont even want to know how long they waited for
He’s getting that $10,000 bag confiscated because of Trump 😭
Canadian tuxedo?! He’s not fucking around tonight
He’s tall because he got the right genes.
I love that he doesn’t turn his gameday outfits into a hideous bad fashion show like other players like to do.
That’s a tall boy.
i just find to so hard to look at a dude that tall and that slim. Like, they look like a kids stick-figure drawing. I feel like his limbs are gonna snap in a gentle breeze. It makes me anxious.
this is legendary. NY fans have been putting such a smile on my face these last few playoffs it is awesome to see the city so fucking hyped
Fn curtains as pants
Canadian tuxedo!
LOOOONG LOOOOONG MAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!
Biggest Canadian tux in existence
wait, there’s dedicated line for haters at a hotel?
These KJ and Fox minutes will not go well
Great look ngl
Specimen
Which ritz is that?
Fun little reminder that new yorkers are mostly horrible to anything that isn’t “NEW YAWK!!”
His jacket is my raincoat.
He’s wearing a Canadian Tuxedo!! He should request a trade to the Raptors, he’ll fit right in over here!!
I don’t mind the guy. But he’s clearly a dirty play when he’s emotional. Someone isn’t going to let him play like that forever.