Victor Wembanyama does it all on the basketball court. On Tuesday he put his scoring hat on.<\/p>\n
The San Antonio Spurs superstar dropped 25 points against the Los Angeles Lakers, all in the first quarter. And he sat for the final 4:01 of the stanza at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n
Advertisement<\/p>\n
It was a remarkable scoring output that no other Spurs player has produced in the play-by-play stat-tracking era<\/a> dating back to 1997-98. That includes the tail end of David Robinson’s career, Kawhi Leonard’s Spurs prime and the entirety of Tim Duncan’s career.<\/p>\n He did it from inside and out and tallied most of those points during a stretch in which he scored 17 consecutive Spurs points.<\/p>\n Wembanyama went 8-of-9 from the field and 3-of-4 from the 3-point line while adding three rebounds. The Spurs piled up a 47-30 lead against a Lakers team playing without Luka Don\u010di\u0107, LeBron James or Austin Reaves. The missed game was James’ 18th of the season, which made him ineligible for end-of-season awards and snapped his unprecedented 21-year All-NBA streak<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n By halftime, Wembanyama had 37 points on 12-of-17 shooting from the floor, 10-of-12 shooting from the line and 3-of-5 shooting from behind the arc. He added nine rebounds, two assists, one steal and one block in a stat line that would be outstanding for any NBA star for a full game.<\/p>\n The Spurs built an 84-55 lead at that point over the shorthanded Lakers. And with San Antonio on the first half of a back-to-back set, there wasn’t a ton of motivation to play him much after halftime.<\/p>\n Wembanyama dropped three points in the third quarter to get to 40 on the night. By the end of that period, the Spurs’ lead had ballooned to 34 points.<\/p>\n This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama does it all on the basketball court. On Tuesday he put his scoring hat on. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1013,7,3382,529,300,185,368,6,969,474,2594,1674,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-596145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-austin-reaves","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-david-robinson","11":"tag-kawhi-leonard","12":"tag-lakers","13":"tag-lebron-james","14":"tag-luka-doncic","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","18":"tag-the-spurs","19":"tag-tim-duncan","20":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116050420701549111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596145","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=596145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}