Los Angeles Lakers, Spurs and Victor Wembanyama
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Examining how NBA defenses have altered their defense of Victor Wembanyama and how it’s led to his first slump of the young season for the Spurs.
After a scorching start to the season, Victor Wembanyama has fallen back to earth with another rough outing in the San Antonio Spurs' 118-116 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night.
Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs have had a promising start to the 2025-26 NBA season, despite coming up short in their 118-116 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers last night. While Wembanyama only shot 5/14 from the floor and fouled out late against the Lakers,
Spurs star Victor Wembanyama pulled a sick move to evade Luka Doncic's defense during Wednesday night's game against the Lakers.
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ESPN's analyst thinks San Antonio is a contender as long as Victor Wembanyama can play at the MVP level: "The Spurs' ceiling is as tall as he is"
With a PER of 30.9, the 7-foot-4 Frenchman currently ranks fifth among all players, behind only Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Yes, Wemby is that good as he is already in the company of arguably the five best players of this decade.
San Antonio will face Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies on Nov. 11 as part of NBC's Coast 2 Coast Tuesday NBA games.
Laker center Deandre Ayton said facing Spurs star Victor Wembanyama was like playing against the Monstars from “Space Jam.”
San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama recently had the rumors surrounding his height clarified by an insider.