Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama selected as finalist for NBA Rookie of the Year, DPOY awards

SAN ANTONIO – The NBA is old, but basketball is older. This is the most important thing to remember when you compare the NBA’s past to its present. Seventy-seven years’ worth of players have taken the floor at the game’s highest level, but basketball — the sport — was famously created by James Naismith 55 years before the NBA was born in 1946. Any NBA player who does something no one has done before means that player can achieve a unique kind of immortality. All of this brings us to...