It almost seems like a foregone conclusion that Victor Wembanyama will be the best player in the NBA one day, but Patrick Beverley believes the San Antonio Spurs big man will take that crown as soon as the 2024-25 season.

"He's not a five," Beverley said Thursday on his podcast (43:35 mark) after ranking the best centers in the league. "He's everything. Like you can't even put him in comparison with other people, he's the best player in the NBA next year. He's a center who shoots threes and dribbles the ball…

"Just because you're 7'4" doesn't make you a center. We're talking about guys who are centers, who come out and set screen and rolls. None of the guys that we are naming come up and shoot hesi-pull threes, maybe [Joel] Embiid a little bit but that's it. It's not fair for him to give him a position. He's an alien, he's positionless."

Wembanyama wasted no time making an impact during his first season in the league as the Rookie of the Year and an All-Defensive First Team selection who led the NBA with 3.6 blocks per game.

He posted 21.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.2 steals a night to go with those block numbers and proved to be a matchup nightmare with the ability to score all over the floor, attack off the bounce, control the boards and even facilitate if necessary.

As if that wasn't enough, Wembanyama led France to the gold-medal game at the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer and gave the United States quite the challenge with 26 points and seven rebounds. The Americans needed a late barrage of three-pointers from Stephen Curry to secure the win in large part because they had few answers to the Spurs star.

Wembanyama won't even be able to legally drink in the United States until January, but he is already positioned to take over the NBA as an unguardable force.

That takeover may include him becoming the league's top player this season.