SAN ANTONIO -- Count No. 2 overall pick Dylan Harper as the latest to learn the lesson that it's near impossible to throw Victor Wembanyama a lob he can't reach.

Making his preseason debut for the San Antonio Spurs , Harper launched an alley-oop to Wembanyama for a two-handed jam with 44.3 seconds left in the first half Friday of San Antonio's 134-130 victory over the Utah Jazz . Harper nodded and pointed Wembanyama's way in the aftermath, acknowledging he might've made the play more difficult than it needed to be.

"I'm gonna throw it a little higher," Harper said to a smiling Wembanyama as the teammates smacked hands walking back down the floor.

Harper's lob to Wembanyama represented just one minor flaw in what appeared to be a near flawless performance for the rookie in the

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