Swanson: Thank you, Victor Wembanyama, for a fantastic All-Star Game

INGLEWOOD — It takes just one. And if I told you a chess-playing, voracious-reading, Shaolin monk-Kung Fu-trained, cosmopolitan European was the one? Well, if you tuned in at all for the NBA’s new-look All-Star Game on Sunday at the Intuit Dome – and I hope you did – you would agree, obviously. It was Kawhi Leonard’s house and Anthony Edwards’ hardware, but it was Victor Wembanyama’s world. The San Antonio Spurs’ dexterous 7-foot-5ish center wanted competitive All-Star play and he got competitive All-Star play: Incroyable, fantastique, super bien, the Frenchman is a true American hero. Because it was an impossible ask. A 7-foot-something tall task. A wish upon a superstar. But Wemby got his...