The Spurs won the NBA Draft Lottery and the right to select Victor Wembanyama and a mural artist may have manifested it all into existence.
The San Antonio Spurs have picked No. 1 overall in the NBA Draft just twice since 1985. The last two times that they did, however, the franchise ended up with a Hall of Famer coming to town as they selected David Robinson in 1987 and then Tim Duncan in 1997. So it's only fitting that, with another generational big man expected to be picked first overall, Victor Wembanyama, it's the Spurs that won the NBA Draft Lottery on Tuesday night.
Now that the Spurs have the top pick in the draft, it's merely a formality getting to June 22 so they can hand Wembanyama his jersey and get him on a plane to San Antonio to be the next French superstar in the organization that paved the way for Tony Parker to the Hall of Fame.
But getting Wembanyama to San Antonio might've been in the works for a while, at least if you believe in people mainfesting things in life.
Case in point, take a look at this Victor Wembanyama mural in San Antonio of him featured alongside Spurs players and legends.
As was noted, though, that didn't go up after the NBA Draft Lottery — it was painted in March.
Spurs: Victor Wembanyama mural in San Antonio told the future
Mural artist Nik Soupé painted the Wembanyama-Spurs work on the wall outside of Rudy's Seafood in San Antonio months ago. Sure, the franchise was clearly heading toward having one of the worst records in the NBA this season by that point, thus giving them a shot at Wembanyama, but it was still far from certain.
Do you believe in destiny, though? Because months later, the Spuers are now getting the French sensation to be the new cornerstone — and you have to wonder if something supernatural was at work with this mural.
Probably not, but it's a fun notion to consider.
More importantly, though, at least Soupé and San Antonio don't have to paint over the mural. In fact, they are hopign that it stays a long, long time and looks quite in place next to pictures of Robinson, Duncan and George Gervin, the all-time greats in franchise history.
