{"id":244822,"date":"2025-10-27T20:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244822\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:18:12","slug":"victor-wembanyama-giannis-antetokounmpo-named-nba-players-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244822\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama, Giannis Antetokounmpo named NBA Players of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1882876 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/POTW_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Antonio Spurs forward-center Victor Wembanyama and Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 1 of the 2025-26 season (Oct. 21-26).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NBA Players of the Week for Week 1.  <\/p>\n<p>West: Victor Wembanyama (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spurs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@spurs<\/a>)<br \/>East: Giannis Antetokounmpo (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bucks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Bucks<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fZc7ZHTvGD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/fZc7ZHTvGD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1982893083802120516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Western Conference<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wemby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@wemby<\/a> on winning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NBA<\/a> Western Conference Player of the Week!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf1f  Averaged 33.3 PTS, 13.3 REB, 6 BLK, 2.3 AST<br \/>\ud83c\udf1f  First player in NBA history to record 100+ points, 40+ rebounds and 15+ blocks through first three games <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wGlwhdK90D\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wGlwhdK90D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spurs\/status\/1982897833763320327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eastern Conference<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just getting started. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QDScXLT6vw\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QDScXLT6vw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bucks\/status\/1982893800252158110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs forward-center Victor Wembanyama and Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo have been named the NBA Western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,145691,85],"class_list":["post-244822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-nba-players-of-the-week","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}