Even in latest Spurs loss, Victor Wembanyama shows he's still coming for LeBron James for best player in the NBA.
Along the baseline at Frost Bank Center , the worldwide symbol of one basketball generation stared down the icon of another. Camera shutters clicked. The arena went quiet for a split-second, as 18,000 people inhaled at once. Victor Wembanyama stretched his telescopic ladder arm as far as it could go. LeBron James made sure it wasn’t quite far enough. That was almost a year ago, in a game Wembanyama’s Spurs wound up winning.
Longevity means sacrifice for Spurs' Chris Paul In his last four games, he averaged 34.0 points, 12.5 rebounds, 3.8 blocks, 3.3 assists while making 24 total 3-pointers. If you plug those statistics into Basketball Reference and ask for the last player in NBA history to hit all of those marks over a four-game span, it essentially responds with, “LOL.” Nobody ever has played the game quite like Wembanyama is now, and this is evident even on nights when opponents try to exploit his weaknesses.
The best Spurs coverage in Alamo City, delivered to your inbox It’s not just the 3-point shot. Against the Lakers, the Spurs also found ways for Wembanyama to get to the basket on the move, with four alley-oop dunks, and he crashed the offensive boards for another easy bucket. All of it was progress, even if Wembanyama said afterwards that he felt “some moments slipped through our hands a little bit.
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