He may still be only 20 years old, but Victor Wembanyama is already showing quite impressive maturity on and off the court.

Invited to the show Sept à Huit, he demonstrated this again with clear words.

Without a doubt, Victor Wembanyama embodies the future of French basketball.

A phenomenon both athletically and technically, capable of much more than a classic pivot, even in this era, the Spurs’ nugget broke everything during his first season in the NBA.

When you are elected Rookie of the Year, it is no small feat.

Whether it is his peers, the media or even the fans, almost everyone in the United States has been captivated by the talent of the Alien, but not only.

If some already think that he can become the GOAT at the end of his career, it is also because he already has the mental characteristics: a constant desire to learn and improve as well as ambition.

Lots and lots of ambition even.

Victor Wembanyama honest about his ambitions
Aware of his abilities, Wemby knows that he can make history with the orange ball if he exploits his full potential.

Invited to the show Sept à Huit, he also confided that he had come to terms with this idea very young but that he had chosen to keep his thoughts to himself and his loved ones.

As he says very honestly, displaying all of one’s ambitions is not necessarily something that is well-regarded in France:

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I think that around the age of 12 or 13, that’s when I understood what it meant to be a top-level player.

And so I understood that I was capable of it and that if I was capable of it, I had to do it.

Very high ambition is often not badly perceived, but not perceived in the right way, I think.

So I only talk about it with the people who are closest to me. My parents for example.

If there is one who must have totally validated this speech, it is Tony Parker.

The former French point guard, who is the mentor of the V but also his former president at ASVEL, repeats to anyone who will listen that the French mentality prevents people from having big dreams.

These remarks are inevitably quite controversial with the public and have also earned the four-time NBA champion a lot of criticism.

In the United States, on the contrary, this type of personality is strongly encouraged and the big man has had no trouble adapting to his new environment.

Add to that a San Antonio franchise that is very good with him and you get the ideal setting to progress at high speed.

The fruit of his hard work should also be seen this summer, when he will compete in the Paris Olympics with the French team.

Victor Wembanyama quickly has very big ambitions, but he preferred to keep that largely to himself.

Now that he is doing well in the United States, however, he is no longer hiding it and it is normal when we see him destroying all his opponents.