Victor Wembanyama Fattened Up At The Shrimp Buffet

The San Antonio Spurs won again Wednesday night, dumping the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco to move a whopping 40 games over .500. The win was their 10th in a row and 15th in 16; they are presently mounting their second 10-game winning streak since the end of January. In each of their last two wins, Victor Wembanyama has posted 40-point double-doubles, making him the first Spur in history to accomplish the feat. That's pretty remarkable, considering the lineage, but like many benchmarks of this sort, it is also somewhat arbitrary and can be adjusted for era, if you're the sort. For the purposes of this blog, it is a pretext for showing you some Wembanyama highlights. Our huge French noodle lad is doing remarkable things out there. In the first of these consecutive huge performances, Wembanyama exploited a Chicago Bulls roster that could put no one larger or more serious before him than Guerschon Yabusele. Yabusele is broadly fine as a rotation guy, but at 6-foot-7 he is a terrible matchup for a guy who can dunk without leaping. Whether because he knew his opponents would be too small, or because he knows that they have been eliminated from the playoffs and thus have lost any incentive to compete for wins, or because he is simply bored of doing normal basketball stuff, Wembanyama used the Bulls game to expand his comfort zone, attempting a career-high 27 shots. "Just figuring out some stuff," Wembanyama said, after taking a surprisingly long pause following a post-game query. "Felt like I needed my offense to get back to a certain level." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBtfoWextcI