{"id":115662,"date":"2025-06-22T03:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/115662\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T03:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:08:12","slug":"victor-wembanyama-turns-heads-with-kevin-durant-message-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/115662\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama Turns Heads With Kevin Durant Message on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Wembanyama Turns Heads With Kevin Durant Message on Saturday<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama entered the 2024-25 season aiming to follow up his Rookie of the Year campaign with a strong sophomore season. He was averaging 24.3 points, 11.0 rebounds, 3.7 assists, and leading the NBA with 3.8 blocks per game over 46 outings before being sidelined by a season-ending blood clot in his shoulder.<\/p>\n

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That injury abruptly cut short his sophomore season\u2014with all eyes now watching how Wembanyama will respond to this setback next season.\u00a0Meanwhile, trade chatter is swarming around Kevin Durant, with the San Antonio Spurs being among his preferred destinations\u00a0(via ESPN<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Amid this, Wembanyama had spoke during an appearance at Fanatics Fest in New York. The Spurs star revealed he had questions written down for both Durant and Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James.<\/p>\n

His comments quickly garnered reactions from NBA fans, as many praised him for his mentality<\/p>\n

“He forsure has a goat mentality, just need health,” one fan wrote.<\/p>\n

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“oh no this kid is going to be a legend,” another fan added.<\/p>\n

“Wemby’s student mentality is elite!!” a third fan posted.<\/p>\n

“Everyone asking who the face of the league is gonna be for me it\u2019s Wemby,” said another.<\/p>\n

\"San<\/p>\n

San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1)\u00a9 Christopher Creveling-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Other fans teased a potential Durant-Wembanyama duo:<\/p>\n

“Kd gonna be alongside him very soon,” a fan predicted.<\/p>\n

“He needs to Ask KD when the spurs announcement is coming,” another fan teased.<\/p>\n

“Bro force your team to trade for KD and you can ask all the questions you want,” another fan advised.<\/p>\n

Durant was last traded by the Brooklyn Nets in 2023 and could potentially be on the move again. It remains to be seen whether both players will become teammates next season.<\/p>\n

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Related: Kevin Durant\u2019s 6-Word Message After Major Grizzlies Trade<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: LeBron James Reacts to Kevin Durant’s Announcement<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 21, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama Turns Heads With Kevin Durant Message on Saturday originally appeared on Athlon Sports. San Antonio Spurs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,247,914,938,185,150,6,969,474,4075,4074,1039,534,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-115662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn-nets","10":"tag-jokic","11":"tag-kevin-durant","12":"tag-lebron-james","13":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","17":"tag-sanantonio","18":"tag-sanantoniospurs","19":"tag-sophomore-season","20":"tag-spurs","21":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114724818519255673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}