As Victor Wembanyama makes his NBA Finals debut, the league’s new face is on its biggest stage

If you’ve been following the NBA closely over the past decade, then you’ll know of the league’s quiet problem. It has been creeping up year after year like the monster behind the hero in a horror movie — seemingly invisible yet unshakably present. The problem is who exactly the NBA’s next face is going to be. LeBron James has proudly carried that mantle for the best part of the last two decades, but at 41, he is on the verge of his curtain call. For years, the NBA has been searching for which one of Generation Next is ready to…