Dwyane Wade's improbable Wembanyama request is actually pretty reasonable

Dwyane Wade just let the basketball fan in him speak about what he wants to see from Victor Wembanyama, and he represented all of us when he did.

"I want Wemby to be so great.. Like, I want him to win five, six, whatever, how many rings, or Finals MVPs, and regular season MVPs. Like, I want to live and say I saw that." - Dwyane Wade

Wembanyama has his fair share of haters, but his jersey sales, San Antonio's ticket sales, and his social media views paint the real picture of how the Spurs' superstar is viewed. Everyone wants to see what he's going to do next because the Alien is unlike anything we've seen before in the sport, and that's what we're here for.

To be amazed.

Wembanyama was never supposed to be ordinary

We were told that Victor Wembanyama was the best prospect in sports history. LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo spoke of this kid as if Darth Vader himself were coming. Once he arrived, he exceeded expectations and verbally expressed his desire to be something we've never seen.

All Wade is doing is asking to see him live up to those things. If he came in with that kind of hype and embraced it willingly, there's no need for the fans to shy away from those things either. We all want the improbable to come true because it gives us exactly what we're looking for when we turn on our favorite sports: amazing.

Michael Jordan is the only player in league history to reach five MVPs since the 1976-77 merger. He's the only player to win six NBA titles. It's been almost 30 years since MJ's final three-peat. Wouldn't it be pretty damn cool to see someone pass his record?

Why shouldn't we ask Wembanyama to do the impossible?

If anyone is going to do those things, Wemby seems like the safest bet because he has exceeded those expectations. He may have been the best defender in the league as a rookie. His offensive game is still widely considered to be pretty raw, but he just averaged 25 points per game.

His first appearance in the playoffs led to an NBA Finals appearance after knocking off the then-defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder. Wembanyama's career is off to a roaring start that would likely be even better if that blood clot had never derailed his sophomore season, because that would have been his first Defensive Player of the Year award.

So if he's going to be this great already, why not ask to see him keep going? Why not ask to see more of what we haven't seen? Why not ask to see something that's supposedly impossible? That's why we're all here, right?

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