To be clear, Victor Wembanyama is destined for generational greatness no matter who is around him.
But the San Antonio Spurs aren't leaving anything to chance.
This offseason, they made a key addition, not to the playing roster but to the coaching staff.
Rashard Lewis is the Spurs' new player development coach.
Yep, that Rashard Lewis, the one who was one of the NBA's best shooters in an era when tall guys didn't yet shoot 3s.
Lewis shot them, lots of them, and at a 38.6% rate for his career.
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It's impossible for any coach to imagine quite what it's like to be Wemby. But Lewis has at least a slightly better chance than most.
"Underrated pickup for the Spurs to bring him in as a player development coach," NBA writer Josh Paredes wrote on X.
The Spurs are already surely pumped just by the fact that Wembanyama is healthy and ready to go for the new season after his blood clot scare in the second half of the 2024-25 campaign.
But with a talent like Wemby, there's also always potential wonderment to come. What did he add to his game? What will he do that no one has ever seen before?
Having Lewis on the staff only increases the chances of Wembanyama being an incredibly efficient, dominant force.
Everyone expects that to happen, and even the smaller moves by San Antonio give it the best chance of being Wemby's real outcome.
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