What did Victor Wembanyama say at San Antonio Spurs media day?

"I couldn't imagine a better motivation," Wembanyama said of losing to the New York Knicks in five games — kind of the classic "Mamba mentality" response.

However, it's more than just motivational fuel the young Spurs need to process, and Wemby understands that. Getting together as a team this summer and working out in Houston — something De'Aaron Fox put together — and in Paris, organized by Wembanyama, helped the team deal with a lot of emotions.

"Obviously, we have to go through some emotions, and you do some of that alone. But it's better to do it as a team," Wembanyama said. "I take a lot of positive things of everything we did this summer. Just being together, honestly, it was amazing. Especially Paris for me, that was really touching, very emotional for me...