The question for San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama is, “What kind of player do you want to be?” according to Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid.
Embiid, the reigning league MVP who is well established as one of the best players in the NBA, says that the Spurs rookie needs to figure out the answer to that question to fully untap his potential.
“Not trying to be too critical. Obviously, extremely talented. Right now, there’s so much hype around him, I think he’s trying to live up to the hype. That’s what I see,” Embiid told The Athletic. “And I watch a lot of games. I think, first of all, he has to figure out where he wants to play, whether he wants to be a guard or a big or whatever. It’s not necessarily whether he wants to be a guard or a big; it’s what he wants to become. Do you want to become KD, or do you want to become me? Not KD, or like a version of those guys—you want to combine everything.
