Victor Wembanyama

Fans who tuned in to the NBA App to watch Victor Wembanyama lead his Metropolitans 92 against JL Bourg-En-Bresse in French league LNB Pro A on Saturday were treated to a dazzling show, as the 18-year-old once again had a strong performance to spearhead a 95-91 overtime victory.

Wembanyama was a force on both ends of the floor, finishing with 23 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks. He wowed fans with his expansive arsenal on offense as well as his impact on defense. A couple of his blocks even came on three-point shot attempts.

Here are some of the top highlights from Wembanyama's performance:

The top prospect in the 2023 NBA draft, Wembanyama looks ready to make an immediate impact when he joins the league. At 7'4" with a polished skill set, he has the chance to be a generational talent who can turn around a franchise.

The next chance for fans to catch Wembanyama will be Friday when the Metropolitans 92 take on Limoges at 3:30 p.m. ET.

The Larry O'Brien Trophy is the ultimate prize in the NBA, but some teams without a realistic chance to compete for a championship may be eyeing a different prize: the chance to draft Victor Wembanyama with the No. 1 pick of the 2023 draft.

Tanking—and how to curb it—is often a topic of discussion in NBA circles and that figures to be even more relevant this season considering Wembanyama could be a franchise-altering superstar for whichever team is fortunate enough to land the No. 1 pick during the draft lottery.

With that as the backdrop, Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports reported NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was among those in favor of an idea that was discussed that would prevent teams from landing in the top three of the lottery in consecutive years.

According to Goodwill, the idea "gained traction in preliminary meetings but was met with resistance by a small handful of general managers."

ESPN's Baxter Holmes reported Silver discussed tanking during a meeting with Phoenix Suns employees and said he has held "hundreds" of meetings on the "serious issue" and even revealed the league has considered a relegation system that would send the worst one or two teams to the G League and promote teams to take their place.

However, he told ESPN's Malika Andrews (h/t Marc Stein) "I can't say I was deadly serious" about relegation.

Still, Silver pointed out to Suns employees that "we put teams on notice. We're going to be paying particular attention to the issue this year."

The NBA took efforts to curb tanking in 2019 when it changed the lottery odds. Previously, the team that finished with the worst record in the league had a 25 percent chance of acquiring the first pick, while the second-worst team (19.9 percent) and third-worst team (15.6 percent) had lower odds.

The 2019 changes implemented a system where the teams with the three worst records all have a 14 percent chance of that top pick.

In theory, the creation of the play-in tournament could also cut down on tanking since there are more postseason spots available and a greater reason for teams on the bubble to compete down the stretch of the regular season.

Yet tanking remains a serious concern in league circles, and that figures to remain the case while some teams dream of a future with Wembanyama in the frontcourt.

The new NBA app will stream projected No. 1 overall 2023 draft pick Victor Wembanyama's games this season, per Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports.

Wembanyama plays for Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 in France's top professional basketball tier, LNB Pro A. He has averaged 18.6 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per game for the 4-1 team, which sits in third place.

Wembanyama, who stands at 7'3" without shoes, has been called the "best NBA prospect since LeBron James," per Kevin O'Connor of The Ringer.

James himself called Wembanyama an "alien" and a "generational talent."

"Everybody has been labeling this unicorn thing," James said, per ESPN.com's Jeremy Willis. Everybody has been a unicorn for the last two years, but he's more like an alien. I've never seen -- no one has ever seen anyone as tall as he is, but as fluid and as graceful as he is out on the floor.

"...His ability to put the ball on the floor, shoot step-back jumpers out of the post, step-back 3s, catch-and-shoot 3s, block shots ... He's for sure a generational talent."

The hype around Wembanyama recently skyrocketed after he starred in two exhibitions featuring his Metropolitans 92 versus fellow elite prospect Scoot Henderson's G League Ignite. He finished with 37 points (including seven three-pointers) and five blocks in the first game and 36 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks in the second.

The 18-year-old can't enter the NBA draft until next year, but for now, fans can watch him lead Metropolitans 92. The team has a 34-game LNB Pro A schedule that runs until May.

With so much attention being paid to Victor Wembanyama and the top of the 2023 NBA draft, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is keeping a close eye on how teams handle their rosters during the regular season.

Per ESPN's Baxter Holmes, during a recent meeting with employees of the Phoenix Suns, Silver said the league has "put teams on notice" regarding potentially tanking to improve their draft position this season.

After Wembanyama's performance in two exhibition games against fellow top prospect Scoot Henderson this month, it was immediately assumed by analysts and fans that non-contending teams would go all-in on a race to the bottom of the standings.

ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski and Jonathan Givony reported on Oct. 5, one day after Wembanyama dropped 37 points on 7-of-11 three-point shooting for Metropolitans 92 against Henderson and the G League Ignite, that the game was "expected to become a factor in how aggressively teams might proceed in joining that race to the bottom of the standings."

One general manager told Wojnarowski and Givony the 18-year-old French superstar is "a 7'4" (Kevin) Durant who blocks shots" and "will be the most hyped player since LeBron."

Speaking to reporters on Oct. 6, Silver attempted to downplay any suggestion teams might attempt to lose games on purpose to improve their lottery odds.

"I know that many of our NBA teams are salivating at the notion that potentially through our lottery, they can get him, so they should all still compete very hard next season," he said.

According to Holmes, Silver did note the league has considered a possible relegation system that's used in soccer but acknowledged it would be disruptive to the NBA's entire business model.

"And even if you took two teams up from the G League," Silver told Suns employees, "they wouldn't be equipped to compete in the NBA."

The concept of tanking is nothing new in the NBA. There are examples of it happening virtually every year, but this could be a special circumstance because of how physically impressive Wembanyama is and how much talent he possesses.

This time around, though, it seems like Silver and other league officials will be keeping a close eye on how often teams are resting their best players.