Victor Wembanyama had 24 rebounds and 52 points as San Antonio Spurs recorded their sixth straight win in the NBA.<\/p>\n
Published On 5 Nov 20265 Nov 2026<\/p>\n
Victor Wembanyama has set a career-high \u200c\u200c24 rebounds before sinking the winning free throw with 24.2 seconds left \u2060\u2060to cap his \u2060\u2060career-best 52-point performance as the host San Antonio Spurs outlasted the Dallas Mavericks 112-111 for their sixth straight victory.<\/p>\n
The Spurs led by \u2060\u206019 points early in the third quarter on Wednesday before Dallas pulled within two with eight minutes and 17 seconds remaining and then took a 103-100 lead on PJ Washington\u2019s three-pointer with 5:38 to play.<\/p>\n
The \u2060\u2060lead seesawed from there as Dallas\u2019s Naji Marshall tied the score at 111 with a 3-pointer with 1:41 remaining, and Wembanyama\u2019s deciding free throw put the Spurs back on top.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks called a timeout to set up a final shot, but Kyrie Irving missed a contested \u200c\u200cturnaround jumper in the lane with 2.5 seconds left, and time ran out.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama also blocked eight shots in the win. Dylan Harper added 21 points, Stephon Castle had 17 and De\u2019Aaron Fox scored 10 for San Antonio.<\/p>\n
Irving led Dallas with 29 points, while Marshall had 22 off the bench. Washington finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds, and Cooper Flagg contributed 19 points and 10 boards. The Mavericks \u2060\u2060have lost two straight games.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama became the first player \u200c\u200cin the past 30 seasons to record at least 25 points, 10 rebounds and five blocked shots in a half. He made all 15 of his free throws and \u200c\u200creached \u200c\u200cthose totals in just 16:37 of playing time.<\/p>\n
Harper added 13 points for San Antonio before half-time. Irving led the Mavericks with 17 points at the break, and Washington had 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama had 24 rebounds and 52 points as San Antonio Spurs recorded their sixth straight win in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,726,590,588,85,1055,6075],"class_list":["post-953420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953420","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=953420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}