{"id":484412,"date":"2025-12-20T07:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/484412\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:17:34","slug":"spurs-victor-wembanyama-joins-hawks-legend-dikembe-mutombo-in-elite-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/484412\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs\u2019 Victor Wembanyama joins Hawks legend Dikembe Mutombo in elite company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(AP) &#8211; After recording two blocks against the Hawks Friday night, San Antonio Spurs sensation Victor Wembanyama joined Hawks legend Dikembe Mutumbo in the NBA record books. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wembanyama joined Mutumbo and NBA legend Patrick Ewing as the only only players to record a block in 100 consecutive regular season games. Ewing\u2019s streak reached 145 games. Mutombo\u2019s reached 116. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wembanyama\u2019s streak dates to his <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/victor-wembanyama-nba-rookie-of-year-7300f8e7c5173520b78c88a9e393164b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rookie season<\/a>. His last regular-season game without a block was on Jan. 10, 2024, against the Detroit Pistons. He is up to 51 blocks this season. He missed 12 games after exiting a Nov. 14 loss to Golden State with a calf strain. He returned to game action on Dec. 13 in the NBA Cup semifinals and helped the Spurs to a 111-109 win against the Thunder with 22 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Spurs beat the Hawks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2025\/12\/20\/spurs-wembanyama-scores-26-points-hand-hawks-2nd-straight-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2025\/12\/20\/spurs-wembanyama-scores-26-points-hand-hawks-2nd-straight-loss\/\">126-96<\/a> Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AP) &#8211; After recording two blocks against the Hawks Friday night, San Antonio Spurs sensation Victor Wembanyama joined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[4794,208,8639,7,12722,69140,69139,6,14896,20251,969,474,4075,4074,534,693,69138,19974,37420,62571,4795],"class_list":{"0":"post-484412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-anf","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlanta-news","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-hawks-news","13":"tag-hawks-spurs","14":"tag-most-consecutive-games-with-a-block","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-records","17":"tag-nba-stats","18":"tag-san-antonio","19":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","20":"tag-sanantonio","21":"tag-sanantoniospurs","22":"tag-spurs","23":"tag-victor-wembanyama","24":"tag-victor-wembanyama-blocks","25":"tag-victor-wembanyama-nba","26":"tag-victor-wembanyama-spurs","27":"tag-victor-wembanyama-stats","28":"tag-wanf"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115750675697717595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484412","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=484412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}