{"id":694316,"date":"2026-04-02T17:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694316\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:44:42","slug":"victor-wembanyama-calls-facing-draymond-warriors-inspiring-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694316\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama calls facing Draymond, Warriors \u2018inspiring\u2019 \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even one of the frontrunners for the 2025-26 NBA MVP award has to pinch himself when facing the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wembavi01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama<\/a>, after leading his team to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/victor-wembanyama-draymond-green-spurs-loss\/1928031\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">127-113 win over Golden State<\/a> on Wednesday, discussed the surreal feelings he gets when facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/greendr01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Draymond Green<\/a> and other members of the Warriors dynasty &#8212; all players he grew up idolizing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s inspiring. It&#8217;s very inspiring,&#8221; he said postgame. &#8220;Draymond is part of this group of guys that I watched growing up that I&#8217;ve watched in their prime, winning championships, making crazy playoff runs. So, yeah. It always feels weird to share the court with these guys. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unreal, a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quite the adjective to use from someone whose unique skillset is unlike anything we&#8217;ve ever seen on a basketball court.<\/p>\n<p>So much so that many refer to him as an &#8220;alien,&#8221; most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/lebron-james-raves-about-no-1-prospect-victor-wembanyama-after-seeing-him-play-like-an-alien\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">notably by LeBron James in 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But even the 7-foot-4 prodigy can appreciate who and what came before him.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio had a dynasty of its own that began before Wembanyama was even born. Led by Gregg Popovich, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duncati01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Duncan<\/a>, fellow Frenchman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/parketo01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Parker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/ginobma01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manu Gin\u00f3bili<\/a>, the team dominated the league for nearly 15 years and won five championships.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Golden State made <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/nba\/teams\/Golden-State-Warriors\/9\/Playoff-History\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">five consecutive NBA Finals appearances<\/a> from 2014 to 2019, and the team won four titles in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama&#8217;s current Spurs aren&#8217;t a dynasty &#8212; yet &#8212; but the current hottest team in the NBA has won 10 games in a row and is the first team ever to win 26 of 28 games while averaging 120-plus points and 30-plus assists.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Green and the Warriors dynasty, from watching them to playing against them, will rub off on Wembanyama and his Spurs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dubs-talk-a-golden-state-warriors-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the Dubs Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even one of the frontrunners for the 2025-26 NBA MVP award has to pinch himself when facing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,200,479,164,4025,4024,498,6,932,863,693,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-694316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-draymond-green","10":"tag-golden-state","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-goldenstate","13":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","14":"tag-klay-thompson","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-steph-curry","17":"tag-steve-kerr","18":"tag-victor-wembanyama","19":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116336359082461868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694316","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=694316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}