Wemby visited the World’s Quietest Room during NBA playoff

Victor Wembanyama is a man of many hobbies, as we’ve learned during the Spurs’ postseason run.

We already knew that he is an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, but he also enjoys drawing, something he was spotted doing Sunday in New York City’s Gramercy Park ahead of Game 3 of the NBA Finals.

“Vic loves to do extracurricular activities,” rookie Carter Bryant told reporters on Tuesday. Wemby will often text him and veteran Harrison Barnes pitching something for them to do, Bryant said. That’s included playing board games, painting — and visiting the World’s Quietest Room.

That last activity took place while the team was in Minneapolis to play the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference Semifinals.

The World’s Quietest Room is inside Orfield Laboratories, which bills itself as “the world’s only independent, multi-sensory lab.” Orfield Laboratories also houses Sound 80, where Prince first recorded the songs that got him signed with Warner Music.

The sound level of the lab’s anechoic test chamber is almost -25 decibels, well below the 0-decibel threshold of human hearing.

“When it’s quiet, ears will adapt,” Orfield Laboratories founder Steven Orfield told the website Hearing Aid Know. “The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You’ll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly. In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound.”

It’s hard for humans to withstand that level of silence. Forty-five minutes is one of the longest periods that someone has stayed in the room, Orfield said.

We don’t know how long Wemby and company lasted in the World’s Quietest Room, but it seems like it was worth the visit.

“We’ve done a bunch of dope stuff,” Bryant said.