* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Friday, October 10, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    The Best “Friends” Halloween Episodes That Blend Spooky And Silly In The Perfect Way – Yahoo

    The Best “Friends” Halloween Episodes That Blend Spooky And Silly In The Perfect Way – Yahoo

    MSG Entertainment Takes Radio City Music Hall Into the Future With Introduction of Sphere Immersive Sound – Business Wire

    MSG Entertainment Transforms Radio City Music Hall with Cutting-Edge Sphere Immersive Sound Experience

    Israel’s Entertainment Industry Is Being Targeted by the Left in Hollywood and the Right at Home – The Wall Street Journal

    Inside the Fierce Clash Shaping Israel’s Entertainment Industry: Hollywood vs. Local Voices

    Offset Is Ready To Finalize Divorce With Cardi B for a Major Reason – Yahoo

    Offset Poised to Finalize Divorce from Cardi B for a Major Reason

    Beyond the Stage: 8 Performing Arts Centers Driving Entertainment and Education – Livability.com

    Beyond the Stage: 8 Performing Arts Centers Transforming Entertainment and Education

    Row K Entertainment Emerges as Major New Hollywood Buyer With Splashy TIFF Shopping Spree – TheWrap

    Row K Entertainment Emerges as Major New Hollywood Buyer With Splashy TIFF Shopping Spree – TheWrap

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    4J schools trying out new electronic hall pass technology – Lookout Eugene-Springfield

    4J Schools Unveils Cutting-Edge Electronic Hall Pass System to Transform Student Experience

    China outlines more controls on exports of rare earths and technology – fox40.com

    China Unveils Tougher Restrictions on Rare Earth and Technology Exports

    Wisconsin Dairy Leads the Way with Cutting-Edge Technology Systems

    ENERCON and Biome collaborate for wind turbine noise reduction technology – Yahoo Finance

    ENERCON and Biome Join Forces to Revolutionize Wind Turbine Noise Reduction

    US and investors gambling on unproven nuclear technology, warn experts – Financial Times

    US and investors gambling on unproven nuclear technology, warn experts – Financial Times

    Is Light-Speed Analog Computing the Future of Technology? – BIOENGINEER.ORG

    Could Light-Speed Analog Computing Transform the Future of Technology?

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    The Best “Friends” Halloween Episodes That Blend Spooky And Silly In The Perfect Way – Yahoo

    The Best “Friends” Halloween Episodes That Blend Spooky And Silly In The Perfect Way – Yahoo

    MSG Entertainment Takes Radio City Music Hall Into the Future With Introduction of Sphere Immersive Sound – Business Wire

    MSG Entertainment Transforms Radio City Music Hall with Cutting-Edge Sphere Immersive Sound Experience

    Israel’s Entertainment Industry Is Being Targeted by the Left in Hollywood and the Right at Home – The Wall Street Journal

    Inside the Fierce Clash Shaping Israel’s Entertainment Industry: Hollywood vs. Local Voices

    Offset Is Ready To Finalize Divorce With Cardi B for a Major Reason – Yahoo

    Offset Poised to Finalize Divorce from Cardi B for a Major Reason

    Beyond the Stage: 8 Performing Arts Centers Driving Entertainment and Education – Livability.com

    Beyond the Stage: 8 Performing Arts Centers Transforming Entertainment and Education

    Row K Entertainment Emerges as Major New Hollywood Buyer With Splashy TIFF Shopping Spree – TheWrap

    Row K Entertainment Emerges as Major New Hollywood Buyer With Splashy TIFF Shopping Spree – TheWrap

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    4J schools trying out new electronic hall pass technology – Lookout Eugene-Springfield

    4J Schools Unveils Cutting-Edge Electronic Hall Pass System to Transform Student Experience

    China outlines more controls on exports of rare earths and technology – fox40.com

    China Unveils Tougher Restrictions on Rare Earth and Technology Exports

    Wisconsin Dairy Leads the Way with Cutting-Edge Technology Systems

    ENERCON and Biome collaborate for wind turbine noise reduction technology – Yahoo Finance

    ENERCON and Biome Join Forces to Revolutionize Wind Turbine Noise Reduction

    US and investors gambling on unproven nuclear technology, warn experts – Financial Times

    US and investors gambling on unproven nuclear technology, warn experts – Financial Times

    Is Light-Speed Analog Computing the Future of Technology? – BIOENGINEER.ORG

    Could Light-Speed Analog Computing Transform the Future of Technology?

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Entertainment

Victor Wembanyama’s Summer League debut was NBA Twitter’s hype cycle at its silliest

July 10, 2023
in Entertainment
Victor Wembanyama’s Summer League debut was NBA Twitter’s hype cycle at its silliest
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

victor wembanyama shooting a ball and tweet about a fan calling him a bust

What a wild first few days to Wemby’s career. You’ve got to love NBA Twitter.
Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images / Screenshot: Twitter / @JeffGSpursZone

NBA Twitter loves a Narrative. The online space, and the league’s fandom in general, feeds on drama, intrigue, and overreacting. It’s silly, in a lovely, online way.

That was never more on display than during No. 1 overall pick Victor Wembanyama’s Summer League debut on Friday and, subsequently, his second game on Sunday. The 7’5″ French center/forward, drafted last month by the San Antonio Spurs, has received every superlative possible: general talent(opens in a new tab), an “alien,”(opens in a new tab) “maybe the greatest prospect in the history of team sports(opens in a new tab).” The expert consensus seems to be he’s the greatest prospect to enter the league since LeBron James(opens in a new tab), which is high praise.

Then he had to, you know, play NBA basketball. (If you can call Summer League games NBA basketball at all.) The Summer League’s ongoing games in Vegas are a mix of pick-up, preseason, and practice — there are touted guys like Wembanyama, long-shots fighting for a contract, and people hanging on to the last semblance of their pro-ball dreams. It’s sloppy, disorganized, and exactly the sort of thing NBA Twitter decided would predict Wembanyama’s future.

In his first game on Friday, Wembanyama scored just nine points on two-of-13 shooting. It was…not ideal. For about 48 hours, a certain subset of Twitter called him a draft bust. Then, come Sunday, he had an amazing second Summer League game, dropping 27 points, scoring efficiently, and defending like a pro on the court.

Search “Wembanyama bust(opens in a new tab)” on Twitter and you’ll get whiplash from the tweets last weekend.

Tweet may have been deleted
(opens in a new tab)

Tweet may have been deleted
(opens in a new tab)

Tweet may have been deleted
(opens in a new tab)

Tweet may have been deleted
(opens in a new tab)

Tweet may have been deleted
(opens in a new tab)

Tweet may have been deleted
(opens in a new tab)

The truth is, we have zero idea what Wemby will become as a player. He played two meaningless basketball games, under intense media scrutiny, immediately after leaving his home country and becoming an American celebrity overnight. Bill Simmons, founder of The Ringer(opens in a new tab) and one of the more prominent media voices in basketball, addressed the wild overreaction to open the most recent episode of his podcast(opens in a new tab).

Simmons said:

“He was written off Friday night. He was a bust. He was Greg Oden, LaRue Martin, Shawn Bradley, pick a bust. It was where we were headed, everyone was freaking out. It was dark. I could give you some of the stories of being in the building for that one. And then Sunday, I can’t believe it! Forty-eight hours later, a generational possible superstar actually looked pretty good. So I’m going to give everyone some settle-down juice.”

This is all true, 100 percent. What Simmons and parts of NBA fandom seem to miss sometimes is that not settling down is entirely the point with NBA Twitter and what large swaths of basketball fandom has become. Yes, it’s about the games played on a court, but it’s also about everything else. Why do you think NBA fans love the offseason so much? Why do we love when people switch teams, and petty(opens in a new tab) spats(opens in a new tab) started on podcasts, and heroes falling and villains rising? It’s reality television in 2023.

I should know, as both Mashable’s resident Bravo expert and sports writer. NBA fandom is more online than any other American sport. It’s the reason NBA Twitter is such a thing, while even the more popular league, the NFL, doesn’t quite get there. Like Bravo, a lot of people enjoy the NBA more for the drama than the actual product. It’s about the storylines, the narrative. It’s who we’re granting the good edit. Hell, NBA players regularly date reality stars like it’s some sort of crossover episode.

In a time where drama can easily turn reality stars rich — think brand deals, Instagram ads, etc. — it makes sense we’d also turn our impossibly wealthy sports stars into reality figures we argue about with very little basis in…actual reality.

Tweet may have been deleted
(opens in a new tab)

Tweet may have been deleted
(opens in a new tab)

So of course NBA fans were dying to hype Wemby up and then pull him down — it’s what an online fandom does best. If you think it’s any different than a Bravo fan parsing through Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix’s entire relationship timeline to fully dig out every Easter egg of the Scandoval, then pal I don’t know what to tell you… You’re wrong.

Sure, there are NBA diehards who watch every game on League Pass and can easily tell you what a horns set looks like(opens in a new tab) in the half-court. Most of us are casuals, though. We want to make lizard-brained arguments and take the tiniest bit of evidence and stretch it into entire beliefs. We want to speculate and dig our heels in.

To be clear, the overzealous sports fan has long been unreasonable on drive-time radio. You’d be well within your rights to say the parasocial fandoms we see across the world now —K-pop stans, Swifties, Bravo-verse devotees — took their cues from sports fans who have long referred to their team as “we.”(opens in a new tab) But now everything moves faster. NBA fandom largely exists online, and the sports world is just catching up to this idea, whereas the aforementioned fans were borne out of online communities. The Wembanyama whiplash was dumb and silly, and it’s exactly what we can expect moving forward.

There’s this thing with NBA writers and podcasters, like Simmons, or ESPN’s Brian Windhorst(opens in a new tab), or Zach Lowe, who explicitly tell aggregators, hey, this is just speculation, please don’t write about this. They’re diehard hoops people, misunderstanding that a large part of the league’s appeal — what helps bring in the massive checks for players, coaches, and media stars alike — is the NBA Twitter ecosystem, often-wrong aggregation accounts included. The league functions on actual games, sure, but also gossip, rivalries, quote-tweets, aggregation, and, of course, overreaction. It’s been that way for years(opens in a new tab).

Was it too early to deem Wembanyama a bust after Game 1 of the Summer League? Of course. It’s also silly to hype him as the real deal after Game 2. But that’s the fun. Every character needs a compelling storyline. As NBA great and burner account-user Kevin Durant once said(opens in a new tab), “There’s No relax champ. No relax when I’m on Twitter. I’m on 10 until the second I close the app. You relax!!”

Mashable Image

Tim Marcin is a culture reporter at Mashable, where he writes about food, fitness, weird stuff on the internet, and, well, just about anything else. You can find him posting endlessly about Buffalo wings on Twitter at @timmarcin(opens in a new tab).

a man in a yellow shirt holding a pile of amazon boxes against a background of amazon boxes

a man in a yellow shirt holding a pile of amazon boxes against a background of amazon boxes

This newsletter may contain advertising, deals, or affiliate links. Subscribing to a newsletter indicates your consent to our Terms of Use(opens in a new tab) and Privacy Policy(opens in a new tab). You may unsubscribe from the newsletters at any time.

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : Mashable – https://mashable.com/article/victor-wembanyama-summer-league-nba-twitter-hype

Tags: entertainmentVictorWembanyama's
Previous Post

Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show viewership is declining

Next Post

Preparing an Amazon wishlist ahead of Prime Day 2023 can save you serious time (and money)

Salesians in Kenya Set to Roll Out Comprehensive Integral Ecology Plan to End “piecemeal” Approach – aciafrica.org

Salesians in Kenya Launch Bold New Plan to End Fragmented Approach to Integral Ecology

October 10, 2025
From refugee to Nobel: Yaghi hails science’s ‘equalising force’ – The Hindu

From refugee to Nobel: Yaghi hails science’s ‘equalising force’ – The Hindu

October 10, 2025
The “Silent Killer” Doesn’t Have to Be Silent: How Laboratory Science Is Changing the Story – Dark Daily

The “Silent Killer” Speaks Up: How Laboratory Science Is Transforming the Narrative

October 10, 2025
Mbappe credits Madrid lifestyle for helping him reset mentally and physically – Reuters

Mbappe credits Madrid lifestyle for helping him reset mentally and physically – Reuters

October 10, 2025
4J schools trying out new electronic hall pass technology – Lookout Eugene-Springfield

4J Schools Unveils Cutting-Edge Electronic Hall Pass System to Transform Student Experience

October 10, 2025
Six Pack of college football picks, predictions: Alabama vs. Missouri, Oregon vs. Indiana in spotlight – CBS Sports

Six Can’t-Miss College Football Showdowns: Alabama vs. Missouri and Oregon vs. Indiana Steal the Spotlight

October 10, 2025

High Five: The rest of the world’s top upcoming qualifiers – The New York Times

October 10, 2025
Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America – The Economist

How Donald Trump’s Fortress Economy Is Starting to Hurt America

October 10, 2025
The Best “Friends” Halloween Episodes That Blend Spooky And Silly In The Perfect Way – Yahoo

The Best “Friends” Halloween Episodes That Blend Spooky And Silly In The Perfect Way – Yahoo

October 10, 2025
Board of Health Meeting – City of Somerville (.gov)

Inside the Latest Somerville Board of Health Meeting: Key Updates and Decisions

October 10, 2025

Categories

Archives

October 2025
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Sep    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (861)
  • Economy (881)
  • Entertainment (21,754)
  • General (17,517)
  • Health (9,923)
  • Lifestyle (894)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (882)
  • Politics (891)
  • Science (16,092)
  • Sports (21,382)
  • Technology (15,862)
  • World (864)

Recent News

Salesians in Kenya Set to Roll Out Comprehensive Integral Ecology Plan to End “piecemeal” Approach – aciafrica.org

Salesians in Kenya Launch Bold New Plan to End Fragmented Approach to Integral Ecology

October 10, 2025
From refugee to Nobel: Yaghi hails science’s ‘equalising force’ – The Hindu

From refugee to Nobel: Yaghi hails science’s ‘equalising force’ – The Hindu

October 10, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version