One of my favorite things to do when I go to an NBA game is get there early enough to watch guys warm up. Especially if you're sitting in the lower bowl, just watching how guys move, how guys carry themselves, and how goddamn big some of them are never fails to amaze me. Now granted, I haven't had the chance yet to watch San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama yet in person, but at least I get to live vicariously through Denver Nuggets rookie Jalen Pickett, because Pickett had the same reaction I imagine I would have when he met Wembanyama for this first time.

For me, the funniest part of the video isn't that Jalen Pickett continued to rave about the size of Wemby's hands both during starting line-up introductions and while on the bench during the game. No, it's far more subtle than that. It's the look of befuddlement on his face right after he shakes Wemby's oversized mitt for the first time. He was so bewildered that he had to do a double-take.

Nuggets rookie Jalen Pickett doing a double take after shaking hands with Victor Wembanyama

That's the look of a man who is thinking to himself, “My God, did I just shake hands with Freddy Krueger?” There's a mix of terror, confusion and giddiness on his face, and I don't blame him one bit. Wemby's hands are comically, absurdly large. Actually, it's not so much that they are big and bulky, it's that his fingers are freakishly long. Like so long that they resemble the hot dog hands from Everything Everywhere All At Once. They look like they should only exist in another alternate reality, or that they should belong to a further evolved species than us. A species that is capable of carrying all of the groceries in from the trunk of the car by sliding the plastic bags onto his digits. I mean seriously, a human being shouldn't be able to engulf a baseball in their hand and make it look like they're holding a ping pong ball…

… and yet Victor Wembanyama does just that.