Fifty-two factors. Twenty-four rebounds. Eight blocks. One level separating the Spurs from the Mavericks.
Victor Wembanyama went for 52, 24 and eight in San Antonio’s 112-111 win on Wednesday night time, and the Spurs wanted each little bit of it.
Girls and gents, VICTOR WEMBANYAMA.
52 PTS, 24 REB, 8 BLKS pic.twitter.com/oi2ECDsix1
— San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) November 5, 2026
From a Toronto seat, my opinion: no one within the East can do that. Not one man.
The taking pictures line is what will get me. He went 16-of-28 from the sphere and 1-of-8 from three, so the supposed floor-spacing unicorn spent the night time within the paint and received to the road 23 instances. He hit 19. ESPN’s recap has each the factors and the rebounds as profession highs.
All of that in 34:04, and San Antonio was plus-23 with him on the ground.
Now the half the place I attempt to sound sensible. 9 of these 24 boards had been offensive, and the Spurs shot 37-of-95 as a workforce, together with 5-of-36 from deep. That’s an unsightly offense. A traditional star can’t drag a workforce by means of that sort of taking pictures and nonetheless come out forward by a single level. Wemby did it by residing on the free-throw line (19-of-23) on one finish and erasing photographs (eight blocks) on the opposite.
My opinion, and I’m sticking with it: he’s already probably the most dominant participant within the league. It’s early November, certain. Come get me in April.
One sport decides nothing. However his unhealthy taking pictures night time, 1-for-8 from three, nonetheless got here out to 52.
The East has loads of stars and I like just a few of them. Opinion once more: none of them bends a sport across the rim like this.
Dallas missed 63 photographs and nonetheless misplaced by one. Any individual inform them that’s the way it works now.