NBA Followers Not Bothered by Britney Spears’s Victor Wembanyama Allegations

When Britney Spears burst onto the nationwide stage in 1999 with “Child One Extra Time,” French NBA celebrity Victor Wembanyama wasn’t alive. Nor had he been born for 2000’s hit single “Oops!…I Did It Once more” or 2003’s “Poisonous.” Wembanyama, 19, wasn’t born till January of 2004, so it’s solely attainable that when 41-year-old Spears approached him in Las Vegas forward of his skilled debut within the NBA’s Summer time League on Friday night, the San Antonio Spurs rookie didn’t even know who she was.

If what Spears says is correct, Wembanyama’s safety staff was additionally unaware of the pop singer’s id as she alleges a member of the rookie’s entourage “back-handed me within the face with out wanting again, in entrance of a crowd, practically knocking me down and inflicting my glasses [to fall] off my face” after she tapped him on the shoulder. Spears, who filed a report with Las Vegas police, referred to as the run-in “tremendous embarrassing” and mentioned she was solely making an attempt to congratulate Wembanyama on his success.

Provided that Wembanyama is 7′ 5″ and Spears is 5′ 4,” it’s a bit arduous to consider she was capable of faucet his shoulder and a bit simpler to belief his clarification that an individual “grabbed me from behind” earlier than “safety pushed her away.” It’s additionally not tough to consider that he didn’t realize it was Spears. “I believed it was no huge deal, after which safety of the Spurs informed me it was Britney Spears,” Wembanyama mentioned, per The Related Press. “At first, I used to be like, ‘You’re joking,’ however yeah, it seems it was Britney Spears. I by no means noticed her face. I simply stored strolling straight.”

No matter occurred in Las Vegas between Spears and Wembanyama, NBA followers don’t actually appear to care because the demand for tickets to look at him take the court docket for the primary time is sort of as excessive because the rangy rookie’s shoulder.

With a capability of 17,500 seats, UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Heart was fully bought out by Wednesday forward of Wembanyama’s professional debut within the NBA and seats are now not accessible on the first market, in response to Entrance Workplace Sports activities. Get-in-the-door tickets are beginning at over $100 on the resale market to see the No. 1 general choose take the ground for the Spurs in opposition to Charlotte and No. 2 choose Brandon Miller and courtside seats for the sport are heading towards $1,200 every as demand grows, per FOS.

The typical price to get in to see Wemby tops $86 common worth that was set on opening evening in 2019 when Zion Williamson made his debut for the New Orleans Pelicans and that is simply the fifth time a Summer time League recreation in Las Vegas has bought out, in response to the NBA. “It’s going to be intense,” Wembanyama mentioned. “I can’t wait to put on that Spurs jersey for a primary time.”

And NBA followers can’t wait to look at it — no matter what occurred with Spears.