Referring to San Antonio Spurs\u2019 superstar Victor Wembanyama as The Alien has been widely accepted across the NBA after only three seasons. What better way to describe a basketball player who does things on the court that are simply not of this universe?<\/p>\n
On Saturday (March 28), NBA on Prime took Wemby\u2019s otherworldly nickname to another level by building an entire narrative about the French phenom\u2019s upbringing on another planet.<\/p>\n
In Wemby: Out of This World, a short, news-style mockumentary that aired before the Spurs vs. Milwaukee Bucks game, an \u201cinter-cosmic specialty reporter\u201d for Prime Sports took viewers to a galaxy far, far away to share Wemby\u2019s origin story.<\/p>\n
The news story began \u201clightyears from Earth\u201d at Orbital Heights Middle School where Wemby first discovered his love for basketball. There, Space God, one of Wemby\u2019s former teammates, talked about what it was like playing ball with him at such a young age.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe played early, like our third growth cycle,\u201d Space God said. \u201cBro was already dunking \u2026 He was unguardable back then.\u201d Wemby\u2019s fictional coach at Orbital Heights, Coach Brakkus, also spoke about Wemby\u2019s unmatched skill on both sides of the court.\u00a0\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just his size,\u201d Brakkus said. \u201cWe had never seen anyone who could handle the ball like that, space the floor, and be a menace on defense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Myrielle Solari, one of Wemby\u2019s middle school alien teachers, also talked about his intelligence and how she knew he would have a bright future.\u00a0\u201cHe was such a joy to have in class; brilliant mind,\u201d she said. \u201cIf he wasn\u2019t a basketball player, he could\u2019ve been whatever he wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wemby: Out of This World also included never-before-seen photos of Wemby and his team and classmates and a frontpage article in The Quantum Tribune showing him cutting the nets after Orbital Heights\u2019 back-to-back championships.<\/p>\n
All the young aliens on Wemby\u2019s home planet use his success as inspiration to reach for the stars.\u00a0\u201cYou never know where the next superstar gonna come from,\u201d Space God said. \u201cAll it takes is for one to be the first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referring to San Antonio Spurs\u2019 superstar Victor Wembanyama as The Alien has been widely accepted across the NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[847,87604,87602,87603,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-226037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysanews","tag-mysapuro","tag-mysasports","tag-mysaspurs","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}