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Victor Wembanyama, France's top export, is poised to replace wine as France's top export, a 7-foot-4 basketball sensation. He's athletic, skilled, vast, and yet only 19, so the winning team will undoubtedly be considered very lucky as the league selects its first pick on Tuesday night in New York. It's either way or not Wembanyama will feel the same way. The 14 teams in Tuesday's lottery aren't all positive, and that's by design. The lottery is supposed to enhance the league's bottom feeders by (slightly) deterring them from tanking their seasons in an attempt to land a top talent in the draft, such as Wembanyama. Mail Online's preview of Wembanyama's 14 future teams, how he'd fit, and what these clubs need to do to attract the NBA's most coveted prospect in a generation.

Tommy Sheppard, the Washington Wizards' general manager, was fired on Wednesday after the team missed the postseason for the second time in a row. Wahington is going to be reshuffled by all - at least in the front office. Sheppard's dismissal comes less than two years after he was granted a job extension in November 2021.

Xavier Cooks, a boomer, has lauded the Australian NBL for its contributions to his fruitful move to the NBA with the Washington Wizards.