There may be no better nickname in modern sports than ‘The Unicorn.’ That’s what San Antonio Spurs second-year superstar Victor Wembanyama truly is. He’s an anomaly, a mirage… something you only get to see once in a lifetime.

The main events start Thursday when Wembanyama and the Spurs take on the Indiana Pacers in the first of two games in Paris. The rematch is Saturday, both happening at Accor Arena, the same building where Wembanyama played in the knockout round of the Paris Olympics last summer when he and France wound up losing to the U.S. in the gold-medal game.

Andrew Nembhard's fingerprints were all over the Indiana Pacers' wire-to-wire victory over the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Paris Games finale on Saturday. The