{"id":680196,"date":"2026-05-19T06:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680196\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:06:08","slug":"video-game-stats-basketball-fans-react-to-wembanyamas-game-1-heroics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680196\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Video game stats&#8217;: Basketball fans react to Wembanyama&#8217;s Game 1 heroics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there weren&#8217;t already plenty of reasons to marvel at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/victor-wembanyama\/98e2cdeb-69dc-499c-a853-84c32c714924\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"98e2cdeb-69dc-499c-a853-84c32c714924\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a>&#8216;s brilliance, the French phenom gave fans some more.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio-spurs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"san-antonio-spurs\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> star powered his team past the defending-champion Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals on Monday after racking up 41 points, 24 rebounds and three blocks in a double-overtime victory.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama was the fourth player to log a 40-point, 20-rebound game in a Conference Finals matchup, joining Charles Barkley, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Moses Malone as the only others to do so. And of that group, the 22-year-old Wembanyama was the youngest.<\/p>\n<p>His antics justifiably sent the basketball world into a frenzy, so here are some of the best reactions to Wemby&#8217;s historic Game 1 performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there weren&#8217;t already plenty of reasons to marvel at Victor Wembanyama&#8216;s brilliance, the French phenom gave fans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-680196","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\/680196","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=680196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}