Spurs, Wemby and Pop: from hope to uncertainty
In the two -day space, the Spurs have lost their maximum star and their coach for the rest of the season. What will happen in San Antonio?
Victor Wembanyama He will not play in the remainder of the NBA season. The unicorn destined to change everything, the physicist combined with talent and work ready to stand in the main lectern of NBA 3.0, suffered an atypical lesion: a blood clot on the shoulder, which opens the door to all kinds of hypothesis on its future. All dissimilar, some reckless and others less dramatic. Of course, loaded with the worst that can have the evaluation of a subject of this class: the doubt about what it can be. The pain of thinking each topic with what could have been.
Wemby’s decline, it is confirmed that Gregg Popovichthe most winning coach in the history of the NBA, will not return as a coach this season after the stroke suffered last November.
All this forces us to reflection. In the era of speed, in the context where impatience is queen with crown, we need time. Time to evaluate what happened to Wembanyama. Time to know how pop will be recovered. Time to know what will be from some San Antonio Spurs They thought of the play-in and now they only think about crossing the days waiting for gratifying news about their flagship player.
Because everything has to do with everything. I have no certainties, but you don’t doubt: Pop stayed in San Antonio waiting for a Wembanyama that allows him a new youth. Chris Paul came to collaborate in the development of Parisian talent and Stephon Castle, and De’aaron Fox arrived in Texas to be Wemby’s ideal partner in the pick and roll game.
The fragility of existence, once again, is proven with Wembanyama.
We believe, wrong, that we can anticipate the course of events. That what has potential inevitably will happen. And then we sentence what will come long before it happens, without understanding that life is dynamic of the unthinkable. It is curious, because one happens to us, and another, and again, but we do not learn: we believe to have conclusions before the hypotheses are born. Is there anything more difficult than specifying what was once hope? Perhaps we can understand, when these things happen, the miracle that has been LeBron James for the NBA: step by step, step by step, went from promise to legend.
“The pleasure of demolishing idols is directly proportional to the need to have them,” said the famous Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano.
And this applies to everyone. Including Wembanyama. How many times do we listen to the phrase: “If you play like this at 21, imagine what will be at 28”? As if things were directly proportional to each other. As if it were a map in which we unite imaginary points on the way to the obvious. Year that passes, year I improve and learn. I am sorry to always work that way, because in the course they happen … things.
When Wembanyama arrived at the NBA, its potential was Esperanza. His absurd physique, something like a Ralph Sampson with Kevin Durant’s versatility, was like the advent of artificial intelligence: he could achieve wonderful things or destroy everything. Because we saw that his multifaceted game, his 360 degree basketball, was a sponge for knowledge. I learned. And I learned fast. Be that as it may, we had the peace of mind that Popovich, master of the game but much more than that tamer of souls, had the wisdom, temperance and knowledge of someone who could sculpt Wemby as his own Miguel Ángel. With time, what is scarce in this world.
With time, which is what we are missing today waiting for answers.
The Spurs, who had a clear road map, a mission to complete that the prologue freshly traveled today as gold is drained between their fingers. Without a star, without a teacher, a situation of general acephaly unthinkable for a franchise accustomed to diagraming everything.
Now, given a weakness, an opportunity arises. It costs to see him immediately, but if San Antonio loses his play-in chance without Wembanyama … What would happen if he manages to add another star potential in June to accompany a healthy Wemby? I mean, Uncertainty opens this kind of scenarios. This is where we are standing at this time: we do not know if what is next is an oasis in the desert or a precipice.
Because Wembanyama can go healthy … or not. That kills us. The only certainty we have is that we don’t know anything. As will be here for a few months. How the Spurs will end in the West. How Popovich will recover. If we will ever see them together on a court.
It is difficult to accept it, but things do not last forever. For me, for you, and for Wemby too.
This is the adventure of life. Write the maps. Take precautions.
And the rest, or not, we will have to discover it.
