SAN ANTONIO – Victor Wembanyama has been unanimously named to the 2025-26 Kia NBA All-Defensive First Team, the San Antonio Spurs announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
The NBA made the announcement on May 22, 2026. It marks Wembanyama\u2019s second All-Defensive First Team selection after he became the first rookie to make first team All-Defense and the youngest in league history in his first season in 2023-24.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama, the 2025-26 NBA Defensive Player of the Year and Blocks Champion, appeared in 64 games this season. He averaged career highs of 25.0 points and 11.5 rebounds, along with 3.1 assists, a league-leading 3.08 blocks and 1.03 steals in 29.2 minutes per game, according to the Spurs.<\/p>\n
The Spurs said Wembanyama led the league in total blocks (197), opponent field goal percentage (40.7) and contested shots per game (9.3). He also became the only NBA player to record at least 1,500 points, 700 rebounds, 150 blocks and 50 steals this season.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama registered 43 games with both a block and a steal and averaged an NBA-best 4.11 \u201cstocks\u201d (steals plus blocks), the release said. He also had an NBA-high 50 multi-block performances, including 17 games with five or more blocks.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old anchored a Spurs defense that posted a 110.4 defensive rating, limiting teams to 111.5 points per game (eighth in the NBA) and a 45.1% opponent field goal percentage (fourth in the NBA), the team said. San Antonio finished the regular season 62-20 and reached the Western Conference finals for the first time since 2017.<\/p>\n
Since entering the NBA in 2023, Wembanyama\u2019s 627 total blocks lead the league and are 203 more than any other player, according to the release. The Spurs said he is the third player in NBA history to lead the league in blocks per game in three consecutive seasons, joining Dikembe Mutombo (1993-94 to 1995-96) and Marcus Camby (2005-06 to 2007-08).<\/p>\n
Joining Wembanyama on the All-Defensive First Team are Rudy Gobert of the Timberwolves, Chet Holmgren of the Thunder, Ausar Thompson of the Pistons and Derrick White of the Celtics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Victor Wembanyama has been unanimously named to the 2025-26 Kia NBA All-Defensive First Team, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-688918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688918","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=688918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}