{"id":276792,"date":"2025-09-10T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/276792\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:19:11","slug":"nba-fans-make-heart-dropped-point-after-victor-wembanyamas-comments-on-tim-duncan-and-kobe-bryant-go-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/276792\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fans make \u2018heart dropped\u2019 point after Victor Wembanyama\u2019s comments on Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant go viral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Wembanyama may have upset some San Antonio Spurs fans with what he said about Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/tag\/victor-wembanyama\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> is the heir apparent to <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/tag\/tim-duncan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Duncan<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/tag\/san-antonio-spurs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>. The French superstar is very much considered his successor as the face of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama is absolutely phenomenal. Much like Duncan, Wemby has size but is immensely skilled. And he relies a lot on his fundamentals to get to the basket.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama also has a lot of admiration for legendary big men of the past. Most recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/hakeem-olajuwon-makes-victor-wembanyama-u-turn-as-star-posts-workout-picture-you-dont-need-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wemby worked out with Hakeem Olajuwon<\/a>, someone Duncan modelled a lot of his game after.<\/p>\n<p>But Wemby may have drawn the ire of some San Antonio Spurs fans with his latest comments about Duncan and <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/tag\/kobe-bryant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kobe Bryant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"941\" height=\"627\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2212184438-941x627.jpg\" alt=\"San Antonio Spurs De'Aaron Fox, Keldon Johnson, Victor Wembanyama, and legends Tim Duncan and David Robinson\" class=\"wp-image-173863\" \/>Photo by Ronald Cortes\/Getty ImagesVictor Wembanyama picks Kobe Bryant over Tim Duncan, quickly backtracks<\/p>\n<p>Victor Wembanyama did a livestream on the San Antonio Spurs\u2019 Instagram channel. When a fan asked him to pick between Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant, he shockingly picked the latter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTim Duncan or Kobe? Tough question. Probably Kobe, all-time. Um, actually, I don\u2019t know\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBA fans took to X to react to these comments. One Spurs quickly corrected everyone, saying, \u201cHe said, \u2018Actually, I don\u2019t know.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>While another fan joked, \u201cMy guy\u2019s heart dropped once he realized he just said. On a SPURS LIVE!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One fan didn\u2019t see where the uproar came from, saying, \u201cI mean, he\u2019s not wrong\u2026 Are y\u2019all forgetting who Kobe was?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whereas one LA Lakers fan joked, \u201cWemby to the Lakers confirmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A fan actually praised Wembanyama for his choice, writing, \u201cWemby knows ball, wow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victor Wembanyama has a long way to go to match Tim Duncan\u2019s legacy<\/p>\n<p>While some San Antonio Spurs fans will be unhappy with what Victor Wembanyama said, it\u2019s hard to really find fault in his comments.<\/p>\n<p>Both Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant are two of the best players of their generation, and are similarly decorated as individuals.<\/p>\n<p>For Wemby, his only concern with Duncan should be trying to replicate an ounce of the success he had with the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>If Wembanyama can bring championship glory to San Antonio like Duncan did, he will cement himself as an all-time great in the history of the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama may have upset some San Antonio Spurs fans with what he said about Tim Duncan and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,1536,150,6,969,474,4075,4074,534,1674,693,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-276792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kobe-bryant","10":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","14":"tag-sanantonio","15":"tag-sanantoniospurs","16":"tag-spurs","17":"tag-tim-duncan","18":"tag-victor-wembanyama","19":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115181385406810820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}