The Spurs keep turning Victor Wembanyama’s nights into abbreviated masterpieces.
On Monday in Phoenix, San Antonio rolled to a 122-96 win, and Wembanyama barely needed a full workload to wreck the game anyway. He finished with 40 points, 11 rebounds and nine blocks in just 25 minutes. The Suns never got close enough to make the Spurs keep him on the floor.
That’s the frustrating part for anybody trying to wrap their head around what Wembanyama really looks like when he’s unleashed for a full game. Stretch that Phoenix line to 36 minutes, and the math gets cartoonish: about 57 points, 16 rebounds and roughly 13 blocks. It’s the kind of production that feels less like a stat line and more like a fever dream.
And Phoenix wasn’t some isolated explosion.
In Portland, Wembanyama scored 29 points on 9-for-13 shooting in 24 minutes, which translates to about 43 points per 36. In Sacramento, he dropped 30 in 26 minutes, good for 41 per 36.
Across the season, he’s putting up 30.1 points in 29.8 minutes per game. Extend that out, and Basketball-Reference has him at 36 points, 14 rebounds and more than five blocks per 36.
The scary part is that the bigger minutes have already produced some absurd nights. In San Antonio’s 112-111 win over Dallas on November 4, he erupted for 52 points, 24 rebounds and eight blocks in 34 minutes. He scored 36 in the first meeting with Utah in almost 39 minutes, and he had 43 against Minnesota when he nearly reached 34 minutes.
But the Spurs keep winning too comfortably to let those games breathe. They’ve won six games by 15 or more this season, and Wembanyama is averaging 26 minutes in those.
Monday was more of the same: every Spurs starter finished under 30 minutes, with Stephon Castle logging the most at 29:47. Dylan Harper added 17 points on 7-for-10 shooting in less than 26 minutes.
The point differential is already getting silly, especially for a team that was supposed to be experimenting with lineups. Instead, San Antonio is 9-2 and riding a nine-game winning streak after that 0-2 start.
The league can’t slow down Wembanyama, and it can’t slow down the Spurs, either. The blowouts are piling up.
The only thing missing is a full night’s worth of the Alien.
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