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Welcome to the Victor Wembanyama experience. Come one, come all, for there is a 7-foot-4 Frenchman who can nutmeg you off the bounce, block your 3-pointers, step back from 3, put back his own stepback in two steps and dunk on you from a standstill outside the restricted area. Behold the human cheat code.
Here, we’ll track the San Antonio Spurs rookie’s weekly progress relative to the most anticipated prospects of the past 50 years, using Yahoo Sports’ own default fantasy basketball settings to rank their production.
But first a few words …
At least the losing streak ended.
The Spurs beat the Anthony Davis-less Los Angeles Lakers on Friday, snapping a franchise-record-breaking skid of 18 straight losses. Victor Wembanyama totaled 13 points, 15 rebounds, five assists, two steals and a pair of blocks, spoiling another stellar statistical line from LeBron James (23 points, 14 assists, seven rebounds).
It marked the first meeting between James and his potential replacement as the face of the league. One fun moment came when James, trapped in the corner by Wembanyama’s 8-foot wingspan, required the full power of his mental computer to process how to get his shot off, and he made a moon beam of a 3-pointer.
It was more than a cool moment, too. The only way out for the greatest player of a generation was a gimmicky shot, and he barely got his shot off. If this is what Wembanyama is capable of at 19 years old, imagine how dangerous he will be when his experience allows him to process every angle of the game.
Wembanyama was more impressive two nights earlier, when he dueled Davis in a loss to the LeBron-less Lakers. Wembanyama (30 points, 13 rebounds, six blocks) withstood a dedicated Davis (37 points, 10 rebounds, four steals) and owned crunch time. Reentering with 4:35 left and his Spurs trailing 108-96, Wembanyama scored 12 points over the next four minutes, including back-to-back stepback 3s. If not for a missed free throw — his only miss of any kind in the fourth quarter — and Malaki Branham’s brain fart of a turnover, San Antonio would have capped a miraculous comeback, and one man was responsible.
The losing streak threatened to overshadow Wembanyama’s positive contributions, but we should not lose sight of the fact that even his bad nights now are double-doubles with one handful of assists and another of blocks and steals — opposite the best the game has to offer. He has Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Milwaukee Bucks next, Luka Dončić’s Dallas Mavericks later in the week and the first-place Boston Celtics on the horizon.