Victor Wembanyama in a dominant win against the Heat: 26/15/4 and 5 blocks in 26 minutes, +18 on the night
Wembanyama thoroughly dominated both ends of the floor against Miami, with the Spurs leading by 25+ for most of the second half.
Source:
https://www.nba.com/game/sas-vs-mia-0022501041
I mean hes the most must watch player in the nba atp
He has been since he got into the league. I think he’s probably my #1 “go see this guy in person if you ever have the chance” at this point. Tv doesn’t do him justice. He’s legit an alien and so much fun to watch with how it warps the game
Like a few years ago, I thought Jokic is the must-watch guy and nobody is gonna top him. No matter how good a guard/forward scores, it’s never going to be as satisfying.
Basketball god: Hold my beer.
I still think Jokic is a close second, especially if you are into passing. But Wemby is just changing the geometry of the game.
Yea, as a former nuggets season ticket holder, Jok is my guy - any time friends were in town, I made it a point to go show them because he’s so fun to watch live. Then I saw Wemby in person right after he got drafted and realized the league was fucked lol. Jokic is for sure my number 2 “see this guy in person, it’s so much better than TV” player, but Wemby just changed how I view that conversation
What’s crazy too is that like… Jokic is probably at his peak right now, or was last season and this one before the injury. That’s not a slight; he is currently running the offense like nobody else in the history of the game. But I doubt there’s another transformation in the works for him like when he got into shape.
Wemby is still pretty inconsistent on offense. His work in the gym is slowly paced for safety reasons. This is his first year with a good, healthy team. Shit, he didn’t even really get a sophomore year.
Watching Wemby evolve is gonna be fun as hell.
As a fan of an eastern conference team, I’m sure it will be. As a fan in the west, fuuuuuuck that
I honestly would want to go just to see how tall he is in person. If youre Wemby it must suck to be gawked at, but I know I would react the same as that NYC lady saying oh lawd.
That’s the thing, you don’t really get the same sense of scale watching games - you get some “oh shit he’s tall” moments on the broadcast but seeing him go from the paint to the arc in one step and blocking a shot with his ridiculous wing span is… different. And it doesn’t really come across with a lot of the angles the broadcasts use just how freakish (in the coolest way) it is
when I watch Spurs games on replay I find myself skipping through the non Wemby minutes
Since Luka is draining his step backs rn I’ll say it’s him
Yeah a step back 3. Wow. Never seen that before
I mean how many players in history have as much control over the flow and pace of an offense like Luka?
Jokic? Harden? Curry? CP3?
Yeh nothing makes me love watching the NBA more than a guy complaining for 40 minutes.
The fuck?
What’s confusing?? Luka is just a better player rn
Who wants to tell him?
lol wut? He’s already overrated
What an idiot
People have him top 5 but he’s not even top 10 this year
Mind listing out your t10?
He’s just trolling the poor dude
Jokic
SGA
Luka
Jaylen brown
Spida
Bam
LeBron
Ant
Giannis
Curry
Bam got me dead fr even as bait
Dude I’m a curry fan but how is he playing better than Wemby? 😭
402 threes
Bored man trolls Reddit.
“man” doesn’t usually apply to 14 year olds but otherwise yeah
hating so hard you lost reading comprehension smh
Wemby Stans are out today
i’m so sure
You dont have a single comment in the positive +/- bruh
flair
Thats a hot take but I promise you one day it won’t be.
You can’t watch this dude and tell me he isn’t the MVP. He’s the most impactful player in the entire league.
He’s already the most impactful player per minute in the league but I think he plays less than SGA
that’s my thinking too, only reason he might not get MVP is the minutes played
He has likely been the most impactful player since the all star break but MVP is a full season award.
That’s one reason SGA should win over Wemby, but it’s a the reason people advocating for Luka send me into a rage.
Yeah Luka over Wemby is crazy. I started thinking Wemby might be better than Luka last year. Now I have no doubt.
Nah you guys don’t get it, defense doesn’t matter. SGA, Luka and Jokic are still more impactful offensively, therefore it’s impossible for Wemby to be the MVP
Lol hes not gonna win. Give it up
Is this shit never getting boring for you? Even MrSunsFan stopped at some point man.
Wemby recorded his 15th game with 5+ blocks this season, leading the league. Second place is 10 games behind him at 5.
He’s more likely this season to have 6+ blocks than 0 blocks.
That’s a disgustingly hilarious stat
MVP
And DPOY
And FMVP
Shai mvp
2nd place to shai
Beyond a reasonable doubt, he is THEE most impactful player in the league. Shai Gilgeous-Alexandwho? Whoka Doncic? Nikola Whokic?
Never even heard of these cats
2nd place
Overrated***
Flair up pussy
They are a lakers and Celtics fan 😂
How have they not annihilated themselves already?
The Celtics who lost to Minnesota without Ant and the Lakers who the next day lost to Detroit without Cade? A fan of those two teams is saying Wemby is overrated as an MVP candidate?
Lmao just put up the laker flair man we all know
Hey be nice to the poor guy. The Cowboys are garbage, the Yankees haven’t won anything in their longest stretch ever, Duke almost lost to a 16 seed, and Alabama is clearly a dead dynasty. The guy is having a rough year.
Chet truthers still out there?
Stfu
and he didn’t even shoot well lol. prime wemby is going to be terrifying good llol
He was chucking 3s with a 25-point lead, I don’t blame him that much.
when his shots falls wemby is just unguardable .
He was fine for the most part, it was just that stretch in the 4th where he decided to chuck 3s for some reason.
i see that as reps before the playoff
Need to get this PPG up since that’s what matters for MVP, right?
Apparently that’s all that matters especially if you’re a Lakers fan this past week and a half.
Imo arguments with refs per 36 is the best metric.
Is it crazy to say this might be prime wemby?
It’s just hard for me to imagine someone of his size having a long career, especially when he has already had health issues (including a blood clot scare)
He still has huge room to grow on offense in terms of shot selection, getting to his spot, etc. He still does weird shit like forcing terrible drives at the basket and kind of standing around sometimes. If he gets elite at positioning then it’s actually over
Believe it or not, even defensively some of his reads could get better. He has an insane IQ and athleticism but he still gets caught out at times
I appreciate an actual response instead of people just shitting on me lol
You’re just being downvoted by other Spurs fans that think you’re putting bad juju into the world.
he has literally grown as a player month over month but sure this arbitrary point 3 years into his career is his peak
He is so far from his prime.
And the blood clot is so stupid to mention. If he gets another one his carreer is probably over so why is it relevant?
I get your concerns but I feel its too early to make the judgement .
(including a blood clot scare)
What do you mean including? That was the only major thing lol. He missed a couple of games because Podz jumped into his leg. He played pretty much same number of games as Jokic/SGA this season and had 71 in his first year.
Y’all blow that so out of proportion.
He was absolutely insane tonight aside from the 3 ball. Freakish highlights the entire game.
I like that he’s figured out that he can just put the ball up on the rim from like 12-15 feet & just bum rush the rim if he misses and get the easy OREB & putback. He does it a couple times a game now wth like 90% success rate.
But that drops his efficiency 😆
Not really it’s the other way
“Belt to ass!” -Wemby, 2026
“✋👅🤚” - Wemby, 2026
Dude lmaoo
🙂 “Just 2026 right?” 😏 “…” 🥺”Just 2026 right?”
Hot take, wemby is already the best player in the NBA, and maybe even the best specimen since wilt. His ceiling is truly the greatest athlete in any sports history, I’ve never seen a guy with that much of a physical advantage over every one else while simultaneously being so skilled.
Its insane that we’re getting him and Ohtani at the same time
His ceiling is truly the greatest athlete in any sports history, I’ve never seen a guy with that much of a physical advantage over every one else while simultaneously being so skilled.
In sport history probably Michael Phelps. Dude is a fucking Specimen even for a swimmer. They are the same tier for sure though.
Jonah Lomu.
“All of sports” is a joke
Did he score 83 tho?
Bam tonight: 29 minutes, 18/3/4 on 5⁄17 shooting.
Someone go make a thread right now titled
“Is Wemby the greatest defender of all-time?”
I’ll support the cause.
No he’s overrated. 😭/s so I won’t get downvoted
Bam? Not against the spurs
I have to keep pretending like this isn’t the best player in the world rn
i don’t think people are ready to say it yet
MVP and probably best in the world
At 22!
Sga is winning mvp
Do you know what MVP stands for? Ok, now compare that to what the person you responded to said.
this was one of wembys most dominant games and he made maybe 2 jumpshots all game. made the heat look like highschoolers
His confidence just tangibly jumps off the screen right now. It looks like he thinks he can do anything he wants to, and the rest of the Spurs have been feeding off that confidence during their current stretch since February
Complete domination
Better than Lukass
And SGAss
Dude’s just a cheat code
DPOY and MVP is normal for an Alien
Sga is mvp. Wemby is 2nd place
Again, his number doesn’t do him justice (except maybe the plus minus stat)
Everyone argues about face of the league. Its wemby and if you say anyone else your wrong
“Mummy pick me up I’m scared” - rest of the league
Give him the MVP
Sga is mvp
I can’t count on much in life but I can count on seeing you flood threads about Wemby
Couldn’t hit a 3 to save his life tonight but didn’t need to. Solid overall game.
Point per minute going crazy
When discussing league MVP on here very smart and knowledgeable people will dock Wemby for “only playing 26 minutes” when the Spurs had a 30 point lead in Miami in the third quarter…
But when SGA does it it’s proof he’s MVP.
And 2016 Steph did it too.
I mean sga sat out 4th quarters half the time he played. He could easily be averaging 35 ppg
But he isn’t though. I wonder what Shai’s average is for the season my guess is 32 maybe due to sitting those 4th quarters but Shai has also carried his team before in different stretches of the schedule. Feels like after Christmas he wasn’t sitting as much as earlier in the season during their 20+ run. Even though I think the Thunder’s first two games went to double OT.
Wemby’s average is 29 you’d think he averages 20 minutes a game. Before Wemby got hurt the first time he was averaging 33 or 34 minutes and as he came back those minute restrictions really hamper the season averages. Wemby had a near 40 minute game dominating the Pistons but that game doesn’t skew the average that hard.
He could, but does he need to? Game is won either way.
Another night at the office for the MVP!
There’s no player who can defend him and no player who he can’t defend.
Easily MVP. Put Shai on the spurs and his numbers + efficiency take a hit. Put Wemby in OKC and his numbers go up. Most impactful two-way player in the world and it’s not that close.
did he score 83 tho
Shai
26 minutes is insane. He’s going to put up some insane playoff performances with more minutes
This guy could be to the NBA what Ohtani has become in MLB, just a literal once in a century level freakish talent doing shit that was genuinely thought impossible until he came along.
Didnt score 60 tho.
Best we can do is 3rd in MVP race
How does he feel about Bam’s 18 point performance though?
I’m just being silly, love Bam, love his 83 point game
What is special with Victor? The same for Kobe, LeBron, Michael, etc… You want to see him play.
If you are not fan of Thunders and Spurs and I give you the opportuniy to attend one game. Spurs or Thunder ?
You answer will give you the true MVP.
I can see hack-a-shaq make a comeback just to stop this lanky giant. Like how else are you going to stop him other than put bodies on him and wear him down?
Hack-a-Shaq only worked because he was such a poor free throw shooter. Wemby shoots 82% from the line. That would mean 1.64 points per possession which is 164 offensive rating lol
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He’s going to put up some absurd statlines during his career. Definitely think he’ll get a quadruple double with blocks at some point
WEMVP!! With how he is playing, they are dominating the league.
But did he score 83
B-but defense doesn’t matter so he can’t be MVP /s
Only needs 26 minutes to do all of that. Thats the MVP.
If he can shoot 3’s, he would be the perfect player