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The monastery and accommodations would be extremely basic -- a bed, or, in Wembanyama's case, three, and a dresser. The days would be extremely long -- six to eight hours per day of training, in addition to hours of meditation -- and challenging. Ndiaye relayed all of this to Wembanyama upon his return. Wembanyama was unfazed. He was intrigued by the discipline and challenge. By what it might unlock in him and what it might help him let go of. The blood clot in his arm had shaken him to his core. "I needed time to find myself again and then to get better," Wembanyama said in December. "It's the best example that life is short, [your] career is short, and can end just like this. So there's no time to waste. "That's a great motivation. That's better motivation than I could expect from anything else."

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