Victor Wembanyama’s latest run has turned the Spurs’ 10-game winning streak into something much bigger than a hot stretch. San Antonio has climbed to No. 2 in the Western Conference, and Wembanyama has been at the center of it with numbers that keep landing in territory the league rarely sees.
The 22-year-old, who won’t turn 23 until Jan. 4, 2027, has already matched Tim Duncan in one of the Spurs’ most exclusive categories. After his 32-point, five-block night in Wednesday’s win over the Bulls, Wembanyama moved to 18 games with at least 30 points and five blocks, including the playoffs.
Duncan also had 18. The gap in experience is the wild part: Wembanyama is in Year 4, with 193 games in San Antonio compared with Duncan’s 1,392.
That Bulls performance was just one stop in a stretch that has looked almost unreal. Over his last five games, Wembanyama has averaged 36.6 points, 13.0 rebounds and 5.0 blocks while shooting 66% from the floor and 41% from 3-point range. He’s done it in only 28 minutes per game, which means he’s been scoring more than 1.3 points per minute during that span.
The biggest explosion came against the Mavericks, when Wembanyama piled up a career-high 52 points and 24 rebounds, along with eight blocks, two steals and two assists. That game put him in a club no one had touched in more than 50 years.
He became the first player since Bob McAdoo in 1974 to record a 50-point, 20-rebound, five-block game. The only other player ever to hit that line is Wilt Chamberlain.
His five-game stretch has also produced another first. According to ESPN Insights, Wembanyama is the first player since blocks became an official stat in 1973-74 to average at least 35 points and five blocks over a five-game span. The games in that run came against the Mavericks, Kings, Trail Blazers, Suns and Bulls.
Even the minutes have made his scoring binge stand out. Against the Suns on Monday, Wembanyama scored 40 points in just 25 minutes, making him only the second player since minutes started being tracked to reach 40 in fewer than 26 minutes, per ESPN.
It was also the fifth time in his career that he has scored at least 40 points in 30 minutes or less, according to Stathead. Stephen Curry holds the regular-season record with seven.
For Wembanyama, the streak has been a showcase of just how far his game has gone. The Spurs are winning, and he’s stacking up numbers that keep pushing into rare, almost absurd company.
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