**OFFICIAL Victor Wembanyama Thread!** - Page 69

cardsin47 · 02-20-2025, 03:02 PM

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BoSoxFan1999 · 02-20-2025, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

It's been happening for MONTHS.

Feels like there are as many WNBA threads at the top of the basketball section as there are NBA threads.

Seriously though, shifting some Wemby investment funds into Stephon Castle might be a smart move if you want to stay in the Spurs family.

A Bowman U Chrome insert super auto of Castle sold for $4k in recent days, which seems astronomic being it's an insert card of him in his UConn jersey.

cardsin47 · 02-20-2025, 03:11 PM

“Wembanyama had already taken 403 3-pointers and blocked 176 shots this season. No player in NBA history has ever finished a season with those numbers, and Wembanyama did it before the All-Star break.“ ~ ESPN

Nomad · 02-20-2025, 03:21 PM

He's taken a lot of 3 pointers. He'll be back.

hermanotarjeta · 02-20-2025, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by BoSoxFan1999

Seriously though, shifting some Wemby investment funds into Stephon Castle might be a smart move if you want to stay in the Spurs family.

A Bowman U Chrome insert super auto of Castle sold for $4k in recent days, which seems astronomic being it's an insert card of him in his UConn jersey.

There will certainly be more ball available for Castle now and the rest of the spurs.

hermanotarjeta · 02-20-2025, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by jcardstore

There are TWO, WNBA threads on the entire 1st page

Certainly, an intelligent poster such as yourself would know there are currently six different threads focused on women’s basketball on the front page.

cardozo · 02-20-2025, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by cardsin47

“Wembanyama had already taken 403 3-pointers and blocked 176 shots this season. No player in NBA history has ever finished a season with those numbers, and Wembanyama did it before the All-Star break.“ ~ ESPN

Since when is taking threes a feat worth mentioning?

Nomad · 02-20-2025, 03:30 PM

And Nesmith. And probably Zion.

FWIW, it only takes a couple committed collectors to bump threads up.

Question though, what happened when Ja did his stuff. Was that a buying opportunity?

tjforce · 02-20-2025, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Scottish Punk

I was just thinking in terms of "generational" guys - Zion and Wemby. Two biggest hyped guys in the past 5 years. Way too early to call it for Wemby, though. Zion's windows is closed even if he has a respectable back half of career.

Hoping this is just a blip for Wemby

For Zion, yes, the possibility of him being the NBA's next all time great is gone. Maybe it was never even there to begin with, but we all just bought in

BoSoxFan1999 · 02-20-2025, 03:37 PM

While it may be Wemby only misses the rest of this season and returns next year and ends up playing a full, 20-year career, yet another reminder that "investing" in retired GOAT HOF'ers (MJ, Kobe, even toss LeBron in there) may be boring, but they'll never suffer huge negative value swings like young prospects/players often do. Well, unless they pull a Wander Franco.

tjforce · 02-20-2025, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by jcardstore

Every single top pick from basically every year since LeBron has gone down in value from rookie year to now outside of the covid bump.

Every top pick is a hobby hero and insanely over hyped. The only real big winners are the late picks with no expectations.

I'm guessing some folks are currently up on Ant Edwards if they bought the right cards.

Paolo was looking good until this season.

Before that you probably have to go back to Kyrie and Anthony Davis to find a a guy who if you bought in on right away you are currently up. Of course a lot of that is because of where the market is compared to that time, so you still would have been much better off just buying LeBron, Kobe, or MJ.

kipgen · 02-20-2025, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by BoSoxFan1999

While it may be Wemby only misses the rest of this season and returns next year and ends up playing a full, 20-year career, yet another reminder that "investing" in retired GOAT HOF'ers (MJ, Kobe, even toss LeBron in there) may be boring, but they'll never suffer huge negative value swings like young prospects/players often do. Well, unless they pull a Wander Franco.

Going into this season the main concern with Wemby was that his prices were already so high the question became "what can he do to make his prices go from already very high to even higher?"

Now that we're in-season we've seen his prices dip from the initial hype cycle and this injury will probably lower things further.

However, this season he's still played great and just made his first all-star game. If people are willing to sell off right now it's probably a great time to buy, his prices will actually have somewhere to rebound to.

BoSoxFan1999 · 02-20-2025, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by tjforce

I'm guessing some folks are currently up on Ant Edwards if they bought the right cards.

Paolo was looking good until this season.

Before that you probably have to go back to Kyrie and Anthony Davis to find a a guy who if you bought in on right away you are currently up. Of course a lot of that is because of where the market is compared to that time, so you still would have been much better off just buying LeBron, Kobe, or MJ.

True believers in Brunson from the start of his career also up yuge I'm thinking.

cardsin47 · 02-20-2025, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by BoSoxFan1999

While it may be Wemby only misses the rest of this season and returns next year and ends up playing a full, 20-year career, yet another reminder that "investing" in retired GOAT HOF'ers (MJ, Kobe, even toss LeBron in there) may be boring, but they'll never suffer huge negative value swings like young prospects/players often do.

I will go to my grave, as a prospector, forever haunted by this truth.

hermanotarjeta · 02-20-2025, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by kipgen

Going into this season the main concern with Wemby was that his prices were already so high the question became "what can he do to make his prices go from already very high to even higher?"

Now that we're in-season we've seen his prices dip from the initial hype cycle and this injury will probably lower things further.

However, this season he's still played great and just made his first all-star game. If people are willing to sell off right now it's probably a great time to buy, his prices will actually have somewhere to rebound to.

We’re still not done with all the 23-24 releases yet!

BoSoxFan1999 · 02-20-2025, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

We’re still not done with all the 23-24 releases yet!

I thought you were joking but you are not.

boxbuster7 · 02-20-2025, 03:54 PM

69 pages

nice

wonder which inveztor is having the biggest tantrum today

hermanotarjeta · 02-20-2025, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by boxbuster7

69 pages

nice

wonder which inveztor is having the biggest tantrum today

But I was told pajama cards was good!

mfw13 · 02-20-2025, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by kipgen

However, this season he's still played great and just made his first all-star game. If people are willing to sell off right now it's probably a great time to buy, his prices will actually have somewhere to rebound to.

For him, it's going to be all about health.....when he plays, he's terrific....but not too many players his height have managed to stay consistently healthy.

tjforce · 02-20-2025, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by BoSoxFan1999

True believers in Brunson from the start of his career also up yuge I'm thinking.

You can find a lot of guys later in the draft that are up big.

The #1 slot though has been tough because of such high hype out the gate.

boxbuster7 · 02-20-2025, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by mfw13

For him, it's going to be all about health.....when he plays, he's terrific....but not too many players his height have managed to stay consistently healthy.

easy to say after todays news

Asian62150 · 02-20-2025, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by cardsin47

Zion is a great example of a Player getting rich while not playing ….

Lonzo Ball might tell Zion to hold my beer in this instance.

JohnnyHatesJazz · 02-20-2025, 05:52 PM

So the spurs and Mavs both make trades to become competitive and they both get whacked with bad news soon after their trades.

This is also a shitty era to prospect.

boxbuster7 · 02-20-2025, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by cardsin47

Zion is a great example of a Player getting rich while not playing ….

how many nba games have you watched this season?

cardsin47 · 02-20-2025, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by boxbuster7

how many nba games have you watched this season?

I’m referencing his career - not just this season

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Nomad Banned Join Date: Jul 2021 Location: Fomenting FOMO on the down low. Posts: 8,094	And Nesmith. And probably Zion. FWIW, it only takes a couple committed collectors to bump threads up. Question though, what happened when Ja did his stuff. Was that a buying opportunity?

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BoSoxFan1999 Member Join Date: Jun 2023 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,977 Bro19999	While it may be Wemby only misses the rest of this season and returns next year and ends up playing a full, 20-year career, yet another reminder that "investing" in retired GOAT HOF'ers (MJ, Kobe, even toss LeBron in there) may be boring, but they'll never suffer huge negative value swings like young prospects/players often do. Well, unless they pull a Wander Franco.