A group of Wembanyama’s former coaches, teammates and trainers greeted him and the Spurs at Palais des Sports Maurice Thorez on Monday.

Victor Wembanyama has arrived in France, where his San Antonio Spurs will face the Indiana Pacers at Accor Arena on January 23rd and 25th. The young star had his first practice with the team at his former gym in Nanterre.

Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs are in Paris to play two NBA games against the Indiana Pacers, one on Thursday and one on Saturday. It is a homecoming for the 7-foot-4 Frenchman, who has not played a competitive game in his home country since France lost the gold medal game to the United States at the 2024 Olympic Games.

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Wembanyama was born and raised in Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, a western Paris suburb, and has made it a focus this week to introduce his teammates to Parisian culture and the life he led before he became the NBA Rookie of the Year and likely next face of the league.

The centerpiece of the Spurs’ trek to Paris has been Tuesday’s sojourn to Le Chesnay, where Wembanyama was on hand as the city cut the ribbon on an outdoor basketball court adjacent to the gym where he took some of his first fledgling jump shots as a kid.

Wemby was greeted on Monday in his former gym, where he used to train for Nanterre, the team in a suburb of Paris that discovered Wembanyama in 2019, when the now 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m) giant was 15.

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Wembanyama unveiled a gift of sorts to his hometown and the next generation on Tuesday, a pair of outdoor courts — one for 5-on-5 play, the other for 3-on-3 play — that were built to the specifications that he wanted and sketched out himself.

Indiana vs. San Antonio on Thursday and Saturday — are essentially going to be a weeklong celebration of France’s own Victor Wembanyama.

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