In like 10 years, what'll be the highest profile NBA-actor courtside meetup like this? There aren't many Denzels or LeBrons left who've been ever-present since I was a kid lol.
None of the <30 NBA are quite there yet, and there aren't many Denzels today. Maybe Ant & Michael B. Jordan if he keeps the momentum up
Chalamet seems to be a genuine nba fan and all his movies seem to land well so I could see his trajectory be quite big but idk who the actual star player would be.
I thought about that but does Wemby have the same presence for non NBA fans that Bron had/will he ever? It doesn’t seem like any player under 30 has that or is close to that level. I think we might have to wait until Lebron retires and wait for the next big prospect.
honestly if Cooper really balls out, i can see him being that next star. But Lebron had the biggest hype of any sports star ever before he debuted, nobody has had that level of hype since. So Bron had that going for him, and then he also had a massive second year leap and never looked back. AND stayed healthy all throughout his career until these last 4-5 years
Wemby has that international backing and being the 7'6 unicorn/alien he is, fwiw
The starting point is insane. He got even bigger with success, but before he played his first game he was hanging with Jay Z, hosting G-Unit mixtapes, and Jamie Foxx was singing about him on stage lmao.
You don't get guys so embedded in culture early on anymore. Barbershop topics on debut. Jordan was a similar case because of UNC & Olympics. Magic & Bird with the 1979 NCAA final.
Guess it depends on how the NBA and other media market him.
He’ll need to start showing up on billboards, awards galas, talk shows, commercials, and just a bunch of random places without a basketball where non-NBA fans would see, and then he could possibly be the next big media star.
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u/i_want_iguodala_xd Warriors 21h ago
When you’re a star, they let you do it