The Alien loses his powers against the NBA’s Space teams (Suns and Rockets)
Victor Wembanyama is known as The Alien, so I compared his games against the NBA’s two space-themed teams:
Houston Rockets and Phoenix Suns.
Through 2025-26, Wemby has played 18 regular-season games against them:
Rockets: 11
Suns: 7
Wemby vs space teams
19.7 PTS / 10.8 REB / 2.8 AST0.9 STL / 3.1 BLK / 3.5 TOV+0.9 +/-9-9 record (50.0%)
Shooting:
46.0 FG%22.9 3P%88.4 FT%56.0 TS%
Wemby vs everyone else
23.9 PTS / 11.1 REB / 3.7 AST1.2 STL / 3.5 BLK / 3.0 TOV+4.3 +/-81-78 record (50.9%)
Shooting:
48.8 FG%35.4 3P%81.1 FT%60.0 TS%
After controlling for season and minutes:
PTS: −4.59, p=.028REB: −0.57, p=.553AST: −0.96, p=.057STL: −0.24, p=.370BLK: −0.47, p=.338TOV: +0.43, p=.305+/-: −3.43, p=.323
The biggest difference is on 3s:
Space teams:
22⁄96 — 22.9%
Everyone else:
364⁄1,027 — 35.4%
That’s a −12.5 percentage-point difference.
tl;dr: Wemby averages 19.7⁄10.8⁄2.8 against the Rockets and Suns versus 23.9⁄11.1⁄3.7 otherwise, with a significant overall P/R/A decline. The biggest difference is three-point shooting: 22.9% vs 35.4%.