相信大家对4年前文班单挑戈贝尔的视频有很深的印象，而在那场对决中，除了文班和戈贝尔在场还有两位球员：一位是效力于皇马也是现法国男篮替补中锋的文森特，另一位则是文班的队友Maxime Raynaud(马克西姆·雷诺)。从南泰尔俱乐部青年队再到国青青年队，两人既是队友也是同一宿舍的室友，私下更是非常要好的朋友，两位同龄人还会聊些量子力学的问题。在去年选秀前一位名叫Connor Letourneau的作者特地分享了两位年轻人之间的趣事：
For one Stanford player , Victor Wembanyama is the buddy who needs that meme
By Connor Letourneau
April 8,2023
Like many Gen Z - ers , Stanford forward Maxime Raynaud often finds a funny meme on Instagram and sends it to his best friend :" You see this ?!"
Raynaud doesn ' t mind , though , if his buddy takes a while to respond . Inaddition to being a quirky 19- year - old who loves Marvel Comics and YouTube videos on string theory , Victor Wembanyama is a generational basketball prospect . His days are a blur of practices and games , sponsorship meetings and photo shoots , autograph requests and interviews .
This is the life that has long been destined for Wembanyama , whose 8- foot wingspan , silky jumper and guard - like handles have him drawing comparisons to everyone from Kareem Abdul - Jabbar to basketball - playing aliens . As NBA teams jostle for the chance to select Wembanyama No .1 overall in June ' s draft , Raynaud sits in a Stanford dorm , amazed by how his former teammate handles all the attention .
" It ' s like he ' s built for this ," said Raynaud , who averaged 8.8 points and ateam - high 6.1 rebounds per game for the Cardinal this past season ." He ' s just different . Always has been ."
Last month , Raynaud was leaving class when he received a video link from Wembanyama of a song from a French comedy show . That little ditty , an inside joke between the two during their lone season together on a team outside Paris , reminded Raynaud that fame hasn ' t changed his 7- foot -2 friend .
Look past the gaudy stat lines and highlights , and Wembanyama remains a lovable nerd - the type of teen who binge watches " Star Wars " movies , descends into YouTube rabbit holes on physics and seldom loses trivia contests . That passion for learning is what first drew Raynaud to Wembanyama .
An aspiring math major at Stanford who hopes to work for NASA once his playing career ends , Raynaud lived in a cramped apartment next to Wembanyama ' s for six weeks in fall 2020. They were the only teens in preseason camp for Nanterre , a top - division team in the west suburbs of Paris filled with 20- and 30- sonethings .
After practice , Raynaud would head to Wembanyama ' s apartment , wherethey ' d talk for hours about quantum mechanics , their favorite superheroes and , of course , basketball . Theirs was a shared dream : to join their French idols such as Rudy Gobert , Nicolas Batum and Evan Fournier in the NBA .
Around this time Raynaud and Wembanyama participated in a2- on -2workout with Gobert and Real Madrid center Vincent Poirier . A four - minute ,38- second video from that session now boasts 79 million views on YouTube and serves as many Americans ' unofficial introduction to the NBA ' s Next Big Thing .
With Raynaud feeding him passes and screens , Wembanyama drilled turnaround jumpers , stepback 3- pointers and one - handed dunks over Gobert - athree - time NBA Defensive Player of the Year . The crazy part ? That wasn ' t the most impressive performance Raynaud had seen from Wembanyama .
While with the French national team at the 2019 FIBA Under -16European Championships in Italy , Raynaud watched Wembanyama post 12 points ,21 rebounds and eight blocks in a win over Croatia . Wembanyama should have finished with a triple - double , but scorekeepers declined to count the three blocks he had on Croatia 3- point attempts .
Then there were numerous times at a national - team or Nanterre game when opponents would drive toward the key , only to see Wembanyama in the paint and pass the ball to the perimeter .
If opponents hadn ' t already had their spirits deflated by his YouTube highlights , they surely felt discouraged watching him drain 3- pointers with both his left and right hands in pregame warm - ups . This speaks to more than Wembanyama ' s physical abilities . A 4.0 student , he taught himself English and has mastered some basketball skills within hours of learning them .
That intelligence could have made Wembanyama an idcal fit alongside Raynaud at Stanford . But while Raynaud moved to Nanterre ' s U -21team full time after that 2020 preseason camp to maintain his college eligibility , Wembanyama ping - ponged between U -21s and the senior club . Anything else would have impeded his development .
" I ' ve known Victor since we were probably 14,15 years old ," Raynaud said ." For as long as I can remember , everyone knew Victor would be France ' s next great player . It was just obvious ."
His is the gift of good genes : a father , Felix Wembanyama , who was a decorated track - and - feld athlete ; a mother , Elodie de Fautereau , who ' s a former player and coach . By the time Victor was 10, he was starring for Nanterre - a moderate - sized club near his childhood home - on the youth circuit .
Five years later , at the urging of his parents , Raynaud left his local team in Paris to train alongside Wembanyama in the suburbs . Twice a day , Raynaud took an hourlong subway ride , his mind adrift with daydreams .
Though one of France ' s top players his age , he was far from a sure thing . Even now , after two years stateside , the now 7- foot -1 Raynaud has yet to garner much NBA attention . His first season starting for Stanford was up and down , with scouts befuddled by his dramatic drop in 3- point percentage .
Knocking down a higher clip beyond the arc will be a top priority for Raynaud this summer . In the meantime , he ' ll monitor the bottom of the NBA standings and the draft lottery .
" It will be fun to see where Victor ends up next season ," Raynaud said ." I know a lot of people look at him and think ," That ' s the future of the NBA .' But , honestly , I know him as the guy I send funny memes to ."
以下来源于机翻：
对于斯坦福队的一名球员来说，维克托．文班亚马就是那个需要这个表情包的朋友。
-﹣康纳．莱托尔内
2023年4月8日
【维克托·文班亚马(左) 与马克西姆·雷诺德在法国一起长大，两人都是 Metropolitans92队的成员】
与许多千禧一代人一样，斯坦福前锋马克西姆·雷诺德经常在 Instagram 上发现有趣的表情包，然后发给他最好的朋友："你看到这个了吗？"
虽然雷诺德并不介意他的朋友需要一些时间来回复，但除了喜欢漫威漫画和弦理论的 YouTube 视频外，维克托·文班亚马还是一个有潜力改变篮球界的年轻人。他的日程安排总是被训练、比赛、赞助商会议、拍照和签名请求以及采访所占据。
这种生活对于文班亚马来说是命中注定的，他的8英尺的翼展、柔滑的跳投和像后卫一样灵活的控球技巧让他被拿来与从卡里姆·阿卜杜尔﹣贾巴尔到会打篮球的外星人等各种人进行比较。随着 NBA 球队在6月份的选秀中争夺挑选文班亚马的机会，雷诺德坐在斯坦福的宿舍里，惊讶于他的前队友是如何应对所有这些关注的。"他生来就适合做这份工作，"雷诺德说。上个赛季，雷诺德为卡迪纳尔队场均贡献8.8分和全队最高的6.1个篮板。"他与众不同，一直如此。"
上个月，雷诺德正在下课，这时他收到了文班亚马发来的一个视频链接，里面是一首来自法国喜剧节目的歌曲。这首小曲子是两人在巴黎郊外的一支球队共事的唯一一个赛季时开的一个玩笑，它让雷诺德想起，名声并没有改变他这位7英尺2英寸的朋友。
抛开那些华丽的数据和表现，文班亚马仍然是一个可爱的书呆子﹣﹣那种沉迷于观看《星球大战》电影、在物理学的 YouTube 视频中深陷其中、几乎从未在知竞赛中输过的青少年。对学习的热爱是雷诺德最初被温巴纳马吸引的原因。
斯坦福大学的数学专业学生雷诺德希望在结束职业生涯后为美国国家航空航天局工作。2020年秋季的6周时间里，他和文班亚马住在一间狭小的公寓里。他们是南泰尔队（ Nanterre ）秋季预赛营中仅有的青少年，南泰尔队是巴黎西郊的一支顶级球队，队员都是20多岁和30多岁的人。
训练结束后，雷诺德会前往文班亚马的公寓，他们在那里会聊上好几个小时，内容涉及量子力学、他们最喜欢的超级英雄，当然还有篮球。他们的梦想是能够加入他们法国的偶像，如鲁迪·戈伯特、尼古拉斯·巴图姆和埃文·福尼耶，进入 NBA 。大约在这个时候，雷诺德和文班亚马与戈伯特和皇家马德里中锋文森特．波伊尔参加了一次2对2的训练。那次训练的一个四分钟三十八秒的视频现在在 YouTube 上有7900万次观看，成为许多美国人对 NBA 未来之星的非正式介绍。在雷诺德为他传球和掩护的情况下，文班亚马投进了转身跳投、后撤步三分球和一记单手扣篮，而戈伯特是三次 NBA 年度最佳防守球员。最疯狂的是，这并不是雷诺德见过的文班亚马最令人印象深刻的表现。
在2019年意大利 FIBA U16欧洲锦标赛上，雷诺德曾目睹文班亚马在战胜克罗地亚的比赛中得到12分、21个篮板和8次封盖。文班亚马本可以完成三双，但计分员拒绝计算他在克罗地亚三次试图投三分时的三次封盖。
然后，在国家队或南特尔的比赛中，对手多次试图突破篮下，却发现文班亚马已经在油漆区，于是把球传给了外围的队友。
如果对手还没有被他在 YouTube 上的精彩集锦吓倒的话，那么在热身赛中看到他用左右手投进三分球，他们肯定会感到泄气。这不仅仅是文班亚马的身体素质问题。他是一名4.0的学生，自学英语，并在学习后数小时内掌握了一些篮球技巧。
这种智力本可以让温本亚马成为斯坦福的理想搭档，但雷诺德在2020年季前训练营结束后全职加入南特 U -21队，以保持大学参赛资格，而文班亚马则在 U -21队和成年队之间徘徊。任何其他选择都会阻碍他的发展。"我从14、15岁起就认识维克托了，"雷诺说。"从我记事起，每个人都知道维克托将成为法国未来的顶级球员。这是显而易见的。
他的天赋来自良好的基因：一位曾是杰出田径运动员的父亲费利克斯·文班亚马，以及一位曾是球员和教练的母亲伊洛迪·德福泰鲁。到维克托10岁时，他在离童年家园不远的纳特尔青年队崭露头角。
五年后，在父母的建议下，雷诺离开了巴黎当地的球队，前往郊区与文班亚马一起训练。雷诺每天要乘坐一小时的地铁，脑海中浮想联翩。
尽管是当时法国同龄球员中的佼佼者，但他并非稳操胜券。即便现在，在美国待了两年之后，身高7英尺1英寸的雷诺仍未获得太多 NBA 的关注。他在斯坦福大学的首个首发赛季表现起伏不定，让球探们对他惊人的三分命中率下降感到困惑。今年夏天，提高三分球命中率将是雷诺的首要任务。与此同时，他还会关注 NBA 的排名和选秀抽签。"我很期待看到维克托下个赛季会去哪支球队效力，"雷诺说。"我知道很多人把他看作是 NBA 的未来 但我更愿意把他看作是我的搞笑表情包发送对象。
相信大家对4年前文班单挑戈贝尔的视频有很深的印象，而在那场对决中，除了文班和戈贝尔在场还有两位球员：一位是效力于皇马也是现法国男篮替补中锋的文森特，另一位则是文班的队友Maxime Raynaud(马克西姆·雷诺)。从南泰尔俱乐部青年队再到国青青年队，两人既是队友也是同一宿舍的室友，私下更是非常要好的朋友，两位同龄人还会聊些量子力学的问题。在去年选秀前一位名叫Connor Letourneau的作者特地分享了两位年轻人之间的趣事：
For one Stanford player , Victor Wembanyama is the buddy who needs that meme
By Connor Letourneau
April 8,2023
Like many Gen Z - ers , Stanford forward Maxime Raynaud often finds a funny meme on Instagram and sends it to his best friend :" You see this ?!"
Raynaud doesn ' t mind , though , if his buddy takes a while to respond . Inaddition to being a quirky 19- year - old who loves Marvel Comics and YouTube videos on string theory , Victor Wembanyama is a generational basketball prospect . His days are a blur of practices and games , sponsorship meetings and photo shoots , autograph requests and interviews .
This is the life that has long been destined for Wembanyama , whose 8- foot wingspan , silky jumper and guard - like handles have him drawing comparisons to everyone from Kareem Abdul - Jabbar to basketball - playing aliens . As NBA teams jostle for the chance to select Wembanyama No .1 overall in June ' s draft , Raynaud sits in a Stanford dorm , amazed by how his former teammate handles all the attention .
" It ' s like he ' s built for this ," said Raynaud , who averaged 8.8 points and ateam - high 6.1 rebounds per game for the Cardinal this past season ." He ' s just different . Always has been ."
Last month , Raynaud was leaving class when he received a video link from Wembanyama of a song from a French comedy show . That little ditty , an inside joke between the two during their lone season together on a team outside Paris , reminded Raynaud that fame hasn ' t changed his 7- foot -2 friend .
Look past the gaudy stat lines and highlights , and Wembanyama remains a lovable nerd - the type of teen who binge watches " Star Wars " movies , descends into YouTube rabbit holes on physics and seldom loses trivia contests . That passion for learning is what first drew Raynaud to Wembanyama .
An aspiring math major at Stanford who hopes to work for NASA once his playing career ends , Raynaud lived in a cramped apartment next to Wembanyama ' s for six weeks in fall 2020. They were the only teens in preseason camp for Nanterre , a top - division team in the west suburbs of Paris filled with 20- and 30- sonethings .
After practice , Raynaud would head to Wembanyama ' s apartment , wherethey ' d talk for hours about quantum mechanics , their favorite superheroes and , of course , basketball . Theirs was a shared dream : to join their French idols such as Rudy Gobert , Nicolas Batum and Evan Fournier in the NBA .
Around this time Raynaud and Wembanyama participated in a2- on -2workout with Gobert and Real Madrid center Vincent Poirier . A four - minute ,38- second video from that session now boasts 79 million views on YouTube and serves as many Americans ' unofficial introduction to the NBA ' s Next Big Thing .
With Raynaud feeding him passes and screens , Wembanyama drilled turnaround jumpers , stepback 3- pointers and one - handed dunks over Gobert - athree - time NBA Defensive Player of the Year . The crazy part ? That wasn ' t the most impressive performance Raynaud had seen from Wembanyama .
While with the French national team at the 2019 FIBA Under -16European Championships in Italy , Raynaud watched Wembanyama post 12 points ,21 rebounds and eight blocks in a win over Croatia . Wembanyama should have finished with a triple - double , but scorekeepers declined to count the three blocks he had on Croatia 3- point attempts .
Then there were numerous times at a national - team or Nanterre game when opponents would drive toward the key , only to see Wembanyama in the paint and pass the ball to the perimeter .
If opponents hadn ' t already had their spirits deflated by his YouTube highlights , they surely felt discouraged watching him drain 3- pointers with both his left and right hands in pregame warm - ups . This speaks to more than Wembanyama ' s physical abilities . A 4.0 student , he taught himself English and has mastered some basketball skills within hours of learning them .
That intelligence could have made Wembanyama an idcal fit alongside Raynaud at Stanford . But while Raynaud moved to Nanterre ' s U -21team full time after that 2020 preseason camp to maintain his college eligibility , Wembanyama ping - ponged between U -21s and the senior club . Anything else would have impeded his development .
" I ' ve known Victor since we were probably 14,15 years old ," Raynaud said ." For as long as I can remember , everyone knew Victor would be France ' s next great player . It was just obvious ."
His is the gift of good genes : a father , Felix Wembanyama , who was a decorated track - and - feld athlete ; a mother , Elodie de Fautereau , who ' s a former player and coach . By the time Victor was 10, he was starring for Nanterre - a moderate - sized club near his childhood home - on the youth circuit .
Five years later , at the urging of his parents , Raynaud left his local team in Paris to train alongside Wembanyama in the suburbs . Twice a day , Raynaud took an hourlong subway ride , his mind adrift with daydreams .
Though one of France ' s top players his age , he was far from a sure thing . Even now , after two years stateside , the now 7- foot -1 Raynaud has yet to garner much NBA attention . His first season starting for Stanford was up and down , with scouts befuddled by his dramatic drop in 3- point percentage .
Knocking down a higher clip beyond the arc will be a top priority for Raynaud this summer . In the meantime , he ' ll monitor the bottom of the NBA standings and the draft lottery .
" It will be fun to see where Victor ends up next season ," Raynaud said ." I know a lot of people look at him and think ," That ' s the future of the NBA .' But , honestly , I know him as the guy I send funny memes to ."
以下来源于机翻：
对于斯坦福队的一名球员来说，维克托．文班亚马就是那个需要这个表情包的朋友。
-﹣康纳．莱托尔内
2023年4月8日
【维克托·文班亚马(左) 与马克西姆·雷诺德在法国一起长大，两人都是 Metropolitans92队的成员】
与许多千禧一代人一样，斯坦福前锋马克西姆·雷诺德经常在 Instagram 上发现有趣的表情包，然后发给他最好的朋友："你看到这个了吗？"
虽然雷诺德并不介意他的朋友需要一些时间来回复，但除了喜欢漫威漫画和弦理论的 YouTube 视频外，维克托·文班亚马还是一个有潜力改变篮球界的年轻人。他的日程安排总是被训练、比赛、赞助商会议、拍照和签名请求以及采访所占据。
这种生活对于文班亚马来说是命中注定的，他的8英尺的翼展、柔滑的跳投和像后卫一样灵活的控球技巧让他被拿来与从卡里姆·阿卜杜尔﹣贾巴尔到会打篮球的外星人等各种人进行比较。随着 NBA 球队在6月份的选秀中争夺挑选文班亚马的机会，雷诺德坐在斯坦福的宿舍里，惊讶于他的前队友是如何应对所有这些关注的。"他生来就适合做这份工作，"雷诺德说。上个赛季，雷诺德为卡迪纳尔队场均贡献8.8分和全队最高的6.1个篮板。"他与众不同，一直如此。"
上个月，雷诺德正在下课，这时他收到了文班亚马发来的一个视频链接，里面是一首来自法国喜剧节目的歌曲。这首小曲子是两人在巴黎郊外的一支球队共事的唯一一个赛季时开的一个玩笑，它让雷诺德想起，名声并没有改变他这位7英尺2英寸的朋友。
抛开那些华丽的数据和表现，文班亚马仍然是一个可爱的书呆子﹣﹣那种沉迷于观看《星球大战》电影、在物理学的 YouTube 视频中深陷其中、几乎从未在知竞赛中输过的青少年。对学习的热爱是雷诺德最初被温巴纳马吸引的原因。
斯坦福大学的数学专业学生雷诺德希望在结束职业生涯后为美国国家航空航天局工作。2020年秋季的6周时间里，他和文班亚马住在一间狭小的公寓里。他们是南泰尔队（ Nanterre ）秋季预赛营中仅有的青少年，南泰尔队是巴黎西郊的一支顶级球队，队员都是20多岁和30多岁的人。
训练结束后，雷诺德会前往文班亚马的公寓，他们在那里会聊上好几个小时，内容涉及量子力学、他们最喜欢的超级英雄，当然还有篮球。他们的梦想是能够加入他们法国的偶像，如鲁迪·戈伯特、尼古拉斯·巴图姆和埃文·福尼耶，进入 NBA 。大约在这个时候，雷诺德和文班亚马与戈伯特和皇家马德里中锋文森特．波伊尔参加了一次2对2的训练。那次训练的一个四分钟三十八秒的视频现在在 YouTube 上有7900万次观看，成为许多美国人对 NBA 未来之星的非正式介绍。在雷诺德为他传球和掩护的情况下，文班亚马投进了转身跳投、后撤步三分球和一记单手扣篮，而戈伯特是三次 NBA 年度最佳防守球员。最疯狂的是，这并不是雷诺德见过的文班亚马最令人印象深刻的表现。
在2019年意大利 FIBA U16欧洲锦标赛上，雷诺德曾目睹文班亚马在战胜克罗地亚的比赛中得到12分、21个篮板和8次封盖。文班亚马本可以完成三双，但计分员拒绝计算他在克罗地亚三次试图投三分时的三次封盖。
然后，在国家队或南特尔的比赛中，对手多次试图突破篮下，却发现文班亚马已经在油漆区，于是把球传给了外围的队友。
如果对手还没有被他在 YouTube 上的精彩集锦吓倒的话，那么在热身赛中看到他用左右手投进三分球，他们肯定会感到泄气。这不仅仅是文班亚马的身体素质问题。他是一名4.0的学生，自学英语，并在学习后数小时内掌握了一些篮球技巧。
这种智力本可以让温本亚马成为斯坦福的理想搭档，但雷诺德在2020年季前训练营结束后全职加入南特 U -21队，以保持大学参赛资格，而文班亚马则在 U -21队和成年队之间徘徊。任何其他选择都会阻碍他的发展。"我从14、15岁起就认识维克托了，"雷诺说。"从我记事起，每个人都知道维克托将成为法国未来的顶级球员。这是显而易见的。
他的天赋来自良好的基因：一位曾是杰出田径运动员的父亲费利克斯·文班亚马，以及一位曾是球员和教练的母亲伊洛迪·德福泰鲁。到维克托10岁时，他在离童年家园不远的纳特尔青年队崭露头角。
五年后，在父母的建议下，雷诺离开了巴黎当地的球队，前往郊区与文班亚马一起训练。雷诺每天要乘坐一小时的地铁，脑海中浮想联翩。
尽管是当时法国同龄球员中的佼佼者，但他并非稳操胜券。即便现在，在美国待了两年之后，身高7英尺1英寸的雷诺仍未获得太多 NBA 的关注。他在斯坦福大学的首个首发赛季表现起伏不定，让球探们对他惊人的三分命中率下降感到困惑。今年夏天，提高三分球命中率将是雷诺的首要任务。与此同时，他还会关注 NBA 的排名和选秀抽签。"我很期待看到维克托下个赛季会去哪支球队效力，"雷诺说。"我知道很多人把他看作是 NBA 的未来 但我更愿意把他看作是我的搞笑表情包发送对象。
