San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is likely still reeling from losing the 2026 NBA Finals to the New York Knicks, but he’s hiding it well at Paris Fashion Week in his native France.
Wembanyama, 22, a House Ambassador since 2024, fronted Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2027 campaign and attended the show by Pharrell on Tuesday, June 23:
Wembanyama, better known as Wemby, was also spotted at a Parisian nightclub — it’s impossible to miss the 7-foot-4 phenom — and received “MVP” chants:
The Spurs selected Wembanyama No. 1 overall in the 2023 NBA Draft. Wembanyama has led the league in blocks in each of his first three seasons, earned All-Star nods over the past two seasons, and became the first-ever unanimous NBA Defensive Player of the Year this year.
Wembanyama believed he deserved the NBA MVP, too, and openly campaigned for it. Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won it for a second straight year instead.
With a young, dynamic core of Wembanyama, Dylan Harper, and Stephon Castle, the Spurs notched the second-best record in the league and reached the playoffs for the first time in six years.
Wembanyama will have to wait for his first MVP, but he got revenge on Gilgeous-Alexander when he and the Spurs vanquished the Thunder’s repeat title hopes by beating them in the Western Conference Finals.
The Knicks spoiled the Spurs’ fairytale from there, however, winning the Finals in five games. It couldn’t have been a more heartbreaking end for the Spurs, as they held a double-digit lead in all five games and squandered a 29-point lead to allow the Knicks to author the largest comeback victory in Finals history in Game 4 at Madison Square Garden.
After missing out on the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy in his first Finals appearance, Wembanyama promised to use it as fuel this offseason.
“This is the biggest lesson of my life, the biggest learning moment,” he said. “I can’t tell exactly what the lesson is, but we’re learning from that, for sure. I’m learning more than any other time in my life before.”