"We would've been a crazy duo" - AJ Dybantsa reveals one NBA player he prefers to team up with as BYU commit eyes pro career

This early, high school phenom AJ Dybantsa is being eyed as the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NBA draft. Although he hasn't played a single game for Brigham Young University yet, the dynamic 6-foot-9 forward has earned the belief of many basketball experts that, within a year, he'll become the next big star.

It’s no surprise, then, that Dybantsa admires a player who once fit that mold before being drafted into the NBA. In an interview with RealGM Basketball, Dybantsa shared the big man he'd like to team up with once he eventually joins the league:

“I think Victor (Wembanyama) is just ridiculous; the things he does are just crazy," Dybantsa said. "I just think we would've been a crazy duo."

Although Wembanyama was selected as the top pick in the 2023 draft, NBA scouts had already been impressed with his remarkable talents as early as 2021, when the French teenager played in the FIBA U19 World Cup gold medal game.

Similarly, Dybantsa's name has risen to the top of 2026 mock drafts. However, the star from Utah Prep Academy acknowledges that it’s a long shot for him to end up on the same team as Wembanyama, at least to start his NBA career:

"The odds of that happening are very slim," Dybantsa said. "But I mean, it was just a thought that came up in my mind when he got drafted. But you never know.”

AJ Dybantsa watches Victor Wembanyama play in Paris

AJ Dybantsa and his father traveled to Paris to watch the game between Wembanyama’s San Antonio Spurs and the Indiana Pacers on Saturday.

Just like the first Spurs-Pacers encounter on Thursday, Wembanyama had an all-around game with 20 points, 12 rebounds, two assists, two steals and one block.

The Pacers, however, avenged their loss two days prior by defeating the Spurs 136-98.

For his part, Dybantsa appreciated the French fans' passion for basketball:

"It’s been great just seeing the atmosphere from a foreign country versus the U.S., about basketball, is still unreal," he told The Salt Lake Tribune. "Paris enjoys basketball, like how we do it."