- After viral clips showed him crying during emotional playoff moments, Victor Wembanyama pushed back hard against people calling it “soft,” saying he refuses to hide his emotions just to fit outdated expectations of masculinity in sports. During Mental Health Awareness Month, it’s honestly refreshing to see one of the NBA’s biggest stars openly talk about vulnerability, pressure, and psychological safety.
- Every single night at exactly 9:00 PM, Wemby puts his phone on airplane mode. No texts, no calls, no exceptions. Instead, he spends the rest of the night reading and decompressing, which honestly sounds like something every therapist has begged us to do.
- Team flights for Wemby apparently look less like NBA YoungBoy and more like BookTok. He’s obsessed with fantasy series like Mistborn, The Wheel of Time, and The Witcher, and even reads Stephen King novels in English to sharpen his vocabulary.
- The morning after games, he casually plays chess against strangers in the park. No, seriously. Wemby has been spotted in places like Washington Square Park challenging random people to chess matches less than 24 hours after his games, which feels deeply on brand for him at this point.
- After signing his massive NBA contract, Wemby celebrated by buying an $850 LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon set. Between Legos, sketching, chess, and fantasy novels, he might genuinely be the most accidentally wholesome superstar in sports right now.