“The difficulty is in learning how you can best contribute to a winning effort,” Abdul-Jabbar added. “That’s what you got to learn how to do with your skill set. And you will find out what that is basically in preseason, you’ll find out a lot about that.”

In the end, it’s still just one game for Wembanyama and if he heeds the advice from Abdul-Jabbar and continues working on his game, it’ll only be a matter of time before we see him reach his potential.