To the Spurs go the Victor

 I see what everyone sees in Victor Wembanyama. I've got eyes and YouTube like all y'all.

.He's a 7-foot-5 Next Gen baller who does things you've never seen any other 7-5 player do: Hit stepback threes, take guys off the dribble out on the floor, handle the ball like a guard. He's Kevin Durant, only half-a-foot taller.

He's also built like Kevin Durant was when he came out of college at Texas. 

In other words, he's a yardstick with feet, all knees and elbows and stick-figure arms and legs. When he turns sideways, he's undetectable by radar. B-2 bomber, meet the B-2 Bomber.

Which is the Blob's only reservation about him.

 Someone who looks that unnervingly frail is Redi-Med Anthony Davis waiting to happen, or so it seems to me. Wembanyama steps onto an NBA court looking like he looks, someone's going to break him in half. 

Of course, he won't ever step onto an NBA court looking like he looks. Not if the San Antonio Spurs have any say in it. 

The Spurs drew the golden ticket in the NBA lottery the other night, and now Victor's theirs with the No. 1 pick. And now the real work begins because the first thing the Spurs likely will do with their Victor-y is get him in the weight room and load him up with protein shakes. 

The only question is whether or not Wembanyama is willing to do the work necessary to turn his otherworldly skill set into greatness.

The last prospect to create this sort of stir was LeBron James, who rode into the league on a hype tsunami that makes Wembanyama's look like a ripple. He lived up to it and then some, becoming the NBA's alltime leading scorer and the greatest basketball player in history unless Michael Jordan is. 

At 38, he's got the Lakers back in the conference finals again. And he's doing that because his workout regimen is legendary and always has been.

Put the work in, and greatness will follow. That's the LeBron James lesson, the Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant lesson, the lesson of every player who ever wound up in Springfield, Mass., in the Hall of Fame.

This includes Kevin Durant, who'll be there on the first ballot someday. And who now is 6-10 and 240 sculpted pounds -- a far cry from the 215-pound spindle he was as a phenom at Texas.

Do the work, greatness follows.

Words to take to heart now, if you're Victor Wembanyama.