NBA All-Star Weekend will be missing a key shooter from the 3-point shootout

 As NBA All-Star Weekend is fast approaching, fans across the league are gearing up for the various skills competitions. Spurs fans, specifically, will be focused on the Slam Dunk Contest, as upstart Stephon Castle will represent the Silver and Black in this contest, and San Antonio fans hope he can bring home some hardware.

The other contest that gets the fans talking is the 3-point shootout. Sharpshooters across the league enter this contest, and legends like Larry Bird and Ray Allen have emerged victorious over the years. Italian sensation Marco Belinelli is the lone Spurs player to win the competition (2014).

But our players can't win games they don't participate in. This year’s competition, as anticipated as it may be, will be missing a key shooter: Spurs wunderkind Victor Wembanyama.

Wembanyama should be in the NBA's 3-point Shootout

Wembanyama’s height alone would make his addition to the 3-point shootout a spectacle. The tallest players to ever win the competition are Dirk Nowitzki and Karl Anthony Towns, both standing seven feet even. Wembanyama dwarfs them both.

Aside from the physical spectacle, Wembanyama makes a case to be included, and it’s a convincing one.

Wembanyama is the only player in the league with double-digit games with 5+ three-pointers made. He’s got ten total games, the league leader, ahead of names like Buddy Hield, Darius Garland, Jalen Brunson, Cam Johnson, and Cade Cunningham.

The only anomaly among those names previously mentioned is the fact that Wembanyama is not in the 3-point shootout, and the other marksmen are.

For the season, Victory shoots 35.5% from long range, up 3% from last season on 3.3 more attempts per game. These numbers are quality enough to be considered for the competition.

On top of the statistics, placing the future face of the NBA into a premier event like the 3-point shootout gets more eyes on the Frenchman.

Adam Silver has a golden opportunity to begin to show off the slenderman to a worldwide audience. NBA All Star weekend is the premier event for the NBA during the regular season, and it’s wise of Silver to showcase the future in prominent roles. Yes, he and Chris Paul will be in the skills competition, but the 3-point shootout provides more exposure.

The NBA has a golden opportunity to further showcase its future star. Wemby has earned the right to be in the competition, and from a media coverage standpoint, the angles are endless.

Adam Silver ought to do the right thing and let Wembanyama chuck ‘em from deep this weekend.