Bam Adebayo Posterized Victor Wembanyama After Telling Press He Wasn’t That Tall

The Spurs hosted nan Heat connected Thursday nighttime arsenic Bam Adebayo and Victor Wembanyama met connected nan tribunal for nan first clip this season. At 6’9”, Adebayo is really a tad spot short arsenic acold arsenic starting centers successful nan NBA go, but that doesn't mean he was worried astir nan newly 7’5” San Antonio large man.

In fact, erstwhile asked by nan property connected Thursday what it was for illustration playing against personification he virtually looks up to, Adebayo pointed retired location are really tons of gangly group successful nan NBA. Maybe you've heard of them?

"I mean, considering we person Boban successful our league. People hide astir Boban," said Adebayo. "Bol Bol. Who else? Who other is simply a skyscraper... I mean, Brook Lopez is simply a skyscraper. I mean, we person gangly group successful our convention truthful it's not a... I consciousness for illustration nan group that are holding nan mics are much amazed astatine really gangly he is complete ya'll than we are."

And if you deliberation he was conscionable saying that successful an effort to downplay an opponent's advantage, well, he went retired location and proved that tallness is conscionable a number erstwhile he drove past Wemby and went up and dunked connected him towards nan extremity of nan first half.

Bam decidedly had a measurement connected Wemby. They didn't precisely meet astatine nan rim, but they were body-to-body successful nan air. This is simply a morganatic poster. Wemby sewage dunked connected by a feline who doesn't moreover deliberation he's that tall. That's sewage to beryllium a first.

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