{"id":487552,"date":"2026-02-24T11:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487552\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:47:15","slug":"victor-wembanyamas-dunk-went-viral-in-spurs-pistons-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487552\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama’s Dunk Went Viral In Spurs-Pistons Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday night, the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> played the Detroit Pistons<\/a> in Michigan.<\/p>\n

The Spurs won by a score of 114-103.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest reasons for their victory was the play of All-Star Victor Wembanyama<\/a>, who finished with 21 points, 17 rebounds, four assists, one steal and six blocks while shooting 6\/16 from the field and 2\/5 from three-point range in 36 minutes of playing time.<\/p>\n

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Victor Wembanyama Has Major Highlight<\/p>\n

During the game, Wembanyama had a huge sequence where he got a block and then finished off with a dunk on the other end.<\/p>\n

Via The NBA: <\/a>“WEMBY BLOCK \ud83d\udc7d WEMBY ALLEY-OOP SLAM \ud83d\udc7d”<\/p>\n

Wembanyama is in the middle of an incredible season where came into the night with averages of 24.3 points, 11.2 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 2.7 blocks per contest while shooting 51.1% from the field and 35.7% from three-point range in 42 games.<\/p>\n

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Former FS1 and ESPN star Skip Bayless Wrote:<\/a> “Spurs are ROLLING through the Association. 9 straight after bullying the bullies in Detroit. Now this year\u2019s NBA<\/a> title comes down to whether the Thunder get completely healthy\u2026 or not.”<\/p>\n

With their victory over the Pistons, the Spurs improved to 41-16 in 57 games, which has them as the second seed in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

They are in the middle of a nine-game winning streak (and 19-10 in 29 games on the road).<\/p>\n

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Following the Pistons, the Spurs will play their next game on Wednesday when they visit the Toronto Raptors<\/a> in Canada.<\/p>\n

The NBA also added another highlight: <\/a>“\ud83d\udc7d Back-to-back dynamic blocks \ud83d\udc7d Wemby’s potent defense helps set up the offense for the Spurs!”<\/p>\n

The Spurs last made the NBA playoffs during the 2019 season when DeMar DeRozan<\/a> was still on the roster.<\/p>\n

It’s very clear that they are ready to end that drought this season.<\/p>\n

Dan Weiss wrote: <\/a>“With five wins in their first five games, @spurs have guaranteed themselves a winning record on the full Rodeo Road Trip for the first time since 2017. It\u2019s their fourteenth winning trip out of twenty three total including the abbreviated 2021 trip. #PorVida”<\/p>\n

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As for the Pistons, they are still the top team in the Eastern Conference with a 42-14 record in 56 games.<\/p>\n

They are 8-2 over their last ten games (and 21-7 at home).<\/p>\n

Following the Spurs, the Pistons will play their next game on Wednesday when they host the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Feb 24, 2026, where it first appeared in the NBA<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday night, the San Antonio Spurs played the Detroit Pistons in Michigan. The Spurs won by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[18427,4576,355,6402,2116,99,60950,2970,32090],"class_list":{"0":"post-487552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-demar-derozan","9":"tag-detroit-pistons","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","12":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-the-spurs","15":"tag-toronto-raptors","16":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}