Reporters and camera crews flew in from France, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Africa to see Wemby's Spurs debut.
Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama, the No. 1 pick of the NBA Draft from France, plays in his first regular season NBA game against the Dallas Mavericks at the Frost Bank Center.Joe Shields rose from his floor seat in Frost Bank Center, in the corner across from the Spurs’ bench, the future gliding past him in long strides of wonder. He cheered. Less than one minute into his NBA debut, Victor Wembanyma blocked a shot by Kyrie Irving of the Dallas Mavericks.
“The whole point of the Spurs was to put San Antonio on the map,” said Shields, a vice president at McCombs Enterprises. And now? A global audience watched the Spurs and Wembanyama, the French phenom, fall to the Mavericks, 126-119, in a game charged with historic anticipation Wednesday night. The Spurs issued more than 20 media credentials to foreign outlets, the most ever for a regular season game, according to a team publicist.
Shields looked past the numbers and stat lines and saw the international picture. “More eyeballs in France and Europe are on the Spurs,” he said. “The funny thing is,” Shield said, “is that he didn’t even like basketball at the time.” And later? “He become Mr. Sports Economic Development.” What would grandpa have thought about the rookie? Shields grins. McCombs would have loved every minute of the hype.
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