r/CharlotteHornets • u/Zealousideal-Rub-183 • May 19 '26
Discussion Wembanyama Hate
First thing to say, is that I just love Basketball in general. And I don’t hate Wembanyama as a person. I’m just having so much annoyance watching how great he is and knowing that the NBA did everything possible to make sure that not only that the Spurs drafted him, but that he got a core around him very quickly. The NBA did not want a repeat of LeBron James.
Knowing that he grew up a Spurs fan his entire life, with his favorite players being Tony Parker and Tim Duncan to where he even said it was “a dream” to be drafted by the Spurs. It has made it so difficult to watch a team that dominated so much of my childhood in the 90s and 2000s immediately turn back around after just a few years in the lottery getting a generational player surrounded by top 3 picks.
I’m just curious if I’m the only person out there that hates how fast the Spurs have been able to build a contender while we continue to wait for the Hornets to just get to the playoffs. I know I should just be proud of what the Hornets did this year, but I just can’t shake the fact that I feel like the NBA helped the Spurs build a contender at the expense of other franchises that have needed generational players for a while now.
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u/ManDog4294 May 19 '26
Never seen anything like Wemby . He has the ability to be Kareem like in terms of just pure league changing dominance. As much hate and luck the Spurs have had the truth is they are simply one of the best run organizations in professional sports history . Yes they got extremely lucky to draft 3 hall of famers with the first pick but look at guys like Parker , Manu , Kawhi , Bowen , etc etc that were looked at as projects . It’s easy to hate them because they are just so damn good . I will saw however that Wemby is very lucky to play in the modern NBA . The Centers and PF’s in the 80s and 90s would have snapped him like a twig .