Wemby Alien Era (@WembyAlienEra):
One of Wembanyama’s chess match opponent’s during the NBA Summer House recaps their day:
“They asked me to get there at 3pm, which I did, then they made me enter from the back, then I had to wait for like half an hour, maybe a bit less, in a room full of food.. Then we got to the room where we were going to play chess and had to wait for half an hour again (maybe a bit more this time).
Then he arrived, took some photos at the NBA 2K Market Place set, then sat down to play chess.
He first played against a kid they had randomly selected in the crowd. Kid was lovely, he talked to a member of the staff saying: ‘I think Harper should be starter!’
Then he played against me..
I got to ask him three questions (the staff encouraged us to do so but it’s quite hard to talk while trying to stay focus on a game of chess).
Q1: “Did you get the chance to meet with the rookies?”
Wemby: “No, I was in France this whole time.”
Q2: “Are you eager to meet them?”
Wemby: “Of course.”
Q3: “Do you know Quaintance and Reed play chess as well?”
Wemby: “No I didn’t. Wait no, I knew about Quaintance but not about Reed”
After he played all three of us (he lost to time against the Grand Master), the kid got to have a jersey signed, and I got to gift Wemby a Yalta set, which is a 3-players version of chess. I had written on the box: “For the Spurs team but more specifically for Jayden, Tarris… and Victor!” Thought it’d be a cool gift since there are now three chess players at the Spurs (now you understand why the only thing I could think off during the game was the rookies). XD
He seemed to like it and a staff member told me so afterwards. I also added a short note inside, basically sending lots of love to the team and describing shortly who I am.”
#GoSpursGo #PorVida
Grok 翻译： 文班亚马在NBA夏季联赛期间的一位国际象棋对手回顾了他们的那一天：
“他们让我下午3点到那儿，我准时到了，然后他们让我从后门进去，接着我得在一个满是食物的房间里等大约半小时，可能稍微少一点……然后我们到了要下棋的房间，又得再等半小时（这次可能稍微多一点）。
然后他来了，在NBA 2K市场舞台上拍了几张照片，然后坐下来下棋。
他先和人群中随机选出的一个孩子对弈。那孩子很可爱，他对一名工作人员说：‘我觉得Harper应该首发！’
然后他和我对弈了……
我有机会问了他三个问题（工作人员鼓励我们这么做，但一边下棋一边保持专注时，聊天其实挺难的）。
Q1：“你有机会和这些新秀见面了吗？”
Wemby：“没有，我这整个时间都在法国。”
Q2：“你很期待见到他们吗？”
Wemby：“当然。”
Q3：“你知道Quaintance和Reed也下国际象棋吗？”
Wemby：“不知道。等等，不，我知道Quaintance的事，但不知道Reed。”
他和我们三个人都下完了（他对阵特级大师时输给了时间），那孩子拿到了一件签名球衣，而我则把一个Yalta棋盘送给了Wemby，那是一种3人版的国际象棋。我在盒子上写道：‘献给马刺队，但更具体地说，是给Jayden、Tarris……还有Victor！’我觉得这会是个很酷的礼物，因为马刺队现在有三位国际象棋选手了（现在你明白为什么比赛中我满脑子想的都是那些新秀）。XD
他看起来很喜欢，事后一名工作人员也这么告诉我。我还在里面附了张简短的便条，大致是向球队送上很多祝福，并简单介绍了自己。”
#GoSpursGo #PorVida
— 2026-08-03 19:50:45
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