{"id":360017,"date":"2025-12-20T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360017\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:58:07","slug":"spurs-wembanyama-records-100th-straight-game-with-a-block-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360017\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs&#8217; Wembanyama records 100th straight game with a block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5104157\/victor-wembanyama\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> joined an exclusive club Friday night, recording his 100th consecutive regular-season game with at least one block in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sa\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401810238\/spurs-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">126-98 win<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs center led the charge with a team-high 26 points, 12 assists and 2 blocks. Wembanyama rejected a shot from the Hawks&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4869342\/dyson-daniels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dyson Daniels<\/a> with just over five minutes remaining in the third quarter, spiking it off the backboard. He finished the game with two blocks, later swatting a layup from rookie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4873201\/asa-newell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asa Newell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The streak dates to his rookie season. His last regular-season game without a block was Jan. 10, 2024, against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only two players have accomplished this feat before. Patrick Ewing recorded 145 consecutive games with at least one block, and Dikembe Mutombo&#8217;s streak reached 116 games. Mutombo is second in the NBA record books with 3,289 overall, behind only Hakeem Olajuwon (3,830). Blocks became an official NBA statistic during the 1973-1974 season.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama is up to 51 blocks this season. He missed 12 games after exiting a Nov. 14 loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State<\/a> because of a calf strain. He returned to game action 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>The Spurs (20-7) reached their 20th win over a month before they did last season. Wembanyama and Co. face the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wizards-spurs-score-wembanyama-sarr-08670705142789ca0ed8d81d6ec59d8c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a> on the road Sunday night before returning to San Antonio to play the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thunder<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA &#8212; Victor Wembanyama joined an exclusive club Friday night, recording his 100th consecutive regular-season game with at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-360017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360017","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=360017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}