{"id":420859,"date":"2026-01-20T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420859\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:31:07","slug":"wembys-brother-oscar-wembanyama-is-an-nba-draft-prospect-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420859\/","title":{"rendered":"Wemby&#8217;s brother Oscar Wembanyama is an NBA Draft prospect on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wemby has a brother?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Victor Wembanyama has a brother. His name is Oscar. And he&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Wembanyama is 6-foot-8 and going to turn 19 this year.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s playing at the U21-level in France for Strasbourg.<\/p>\n<p>And right now, his numbers are fantastic:<\/p>\n<p>11.6 ppg4.8 rpg2.6 apg58% FG42% 3FG91% FT<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/lebron-james-ownership-stake-liverpool-mind-blowingly-good-investment\/e312406c19c4f43ec3defcfd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LeBron&#8217;s ownership stake in Liverpool looks brilliant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those shooting numbers in particular are astoundingly good.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Oscar Wembanyama (6\u20198 | 2007) is in the midst of a true breakout season in France, looking like a true prospect playing in France\u2019s U21 league. Through 11 games, he\u2019s been averaging<\/p>\n<p>11.6 PPG<br \/>4.8 RPG<br \/>2.6 APG<br \/>2.9 STK<br \/>58% FG<br \/>42% 3P<br \/>91 % FT<\/p>\n<p>50\/40\/90 season for Strasbourg\u2019s U21s! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f0wyHGd7B6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/f0wyHGd7B6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 nbadraftpoint (@nbadraftpoint) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbadraftpoint\/status\/2013340439877685677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Victor was taller at an earlier age. He had even more skill at an earlier age.<\/p>\n<p>But the genetics are clearly good.<\/p>\n<p>If Oscar keeps playing like this, he really will get a chance stateside at some point.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, two Wembys is better than one.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wemby has a brother? Yes, Victor Wembanyama has a brother. His name is Oscar. And he&#8217;s coming. Oscar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-420859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}