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The Meaningless First Basketball Game
The Charlotte Hornet summer league team is 100% accurate one of the worst I've ever seen play and they have a whole collection of former number one picks like you know first round picks by Michael Jordan it's incredible that these guys should be really good and they're not. Victor Wambanyama was well taught he plays the right way astonishing skill for his astonishing height but I don't see will imposing or obviously physically dominant. He didn't deliver there's no way around it it was a letdown in the building it was the most hyped atmosphere at summer league that I have ever seen.
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