Teammates provide safety in numbers for rookie Victor Wembanyama after a rough Madison Square Garden debut
NEW YORK —The team plane, fueled and ready at the airport, waited for the team bus. The team bus, engine idling outside Madison Square Garden, waited for its final passengers. It was late, and getting later, and the last person on the bus was going to be in trouble. Even if the last person was a 7-foot-3 international sensation. But only if he was alone. If seven guys were last, together? Well, the way Devin Vassell figured it, the man in charge couldn’t yell at all of them.
The scenes that stuck out, the staffer said, were the ones chronicling the locker-room tension stemming from so much outside focus on one player. Ever since the Spurs won the NBA draft lottery last May, they’ve been conscious of precisely those perils.
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