{"id":307484,"date":"2026-05-25T01:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T01:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307484\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T01:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T01:26:09","slug":"spurs-victor-wembanyama-named-to-all-nba-first-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307484\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs\u2019 Victor Wembanyama named to All-NBA First Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Victor_Wembanyama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Victor_Wembanyama\/\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> has been named to the 2025-26 Kia All-NBA First Team, the league announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The accolade marks the first All-NBA selection of the center\u2019s career and the first time a San Antonio Spur has earned the honor since the 2016-17 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Wembanyama becomes the fifth player in Spurs franchise history to be named to the All-NBA First Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The 22-year-old appeared in 64 games this season, posting career highs of 25 points and 11.5 rebounds per game to go with 3.1 assists, a league-leading 3.08 blocks and 1.03 steals in 29.2 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Wembanyama became the seventh player in NBA history to average at least 25 points, 10 rebounds and 3 blocks in a single season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Wembanyama also claimed the 2025-26 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year award, becoming the youngest player in league history to win the honor and the first unanimous selection since the award was established in 1982-83. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Wembanyama joins Cade Cunningham of the Detroit Pistons, Luka Don\u010di\u0107 of the Los Angeles Lakers, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Nikola Joki\u0107 of the Denver Nuggets on the 2025-26 Kia All-NBA First Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Read more stories about Wemby\u2019s postseason accolades:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Victor Wembanyama has been named to the 2025-26 Kia All-NBA First Team, the league announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3080,82,84,83,1594,509],"class_list":["post-307484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-spurs","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}