{"id":555445,"date":"2026-03-31T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/555445\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:46:08","slug":"wembanyama-records-3rd-fastest-double-double-since-97-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/555445\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama records 3rd-fastest double-double since ’97-98"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar 30, 2026, 10:47 PM ET<\/p>\n

SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama<\/a> had a season-high 41 points and 16 rebounds while collecting the third fastest double-double since 1997-98, and the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> won their ninth straight, defeating the Chicago Bulls<\/a> 129-114<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama had 10 points and 10 rebounds in his first 8 minutes, 31 seconds on the court, collecting his 10th rebound 1:55 into the second quarter. It was the third-fastest double-double in the play-by-play era, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, behind only Boban Marjanovic (8:13) in 2017 and Jonas Valanciunas (8:08) in 2025.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama punctuated his season high with a driving, one-handed dunk for his final points midway through the fourth quarter. He was 17-for-27 from the field and 3-for-6 on 3-pointers in scoring at least 30 points for the 14th time this season.<\/p>\n

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Stephon Castle<\/a> added 21 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds for San Antonio, which has won nine consecutive games.<\/p>\n

Bulls point guard Tre Jones<\/a> had 23 points in his first game in San Antonio since being traded to Chicago as part of the deal that brought De’Aaron Fox<\/a> to the Spurs. Leonard Miller<\/a> added 21 points, and Collin Sexton<\/a> had 20 as the Bulls lost their fourth straight.<\/p>\n

San Antonio, which had six players score in double figures, extended its lead to 29 points in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

The Bulls took the court two hours after waiving Jaden Ivey<\/a> for “conduct detrimental to the team<\/a>.” Ivey, who is injured, did not travel with the team during its four-game road trip.<\/p>\n

The news didn’t impact Chicago early, as an uncontested one-handed slam by Matas Buzelis<\/a> gave the Bulls a 5-2 lead and led to an angry timeout by Spurs coach Mitch Johnson 71 seconds into the game. San Antonio responded with a 20-13 run fueled by the start of Wembanyama’s early double-double.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 30, 2026, 10:47 PM ET SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama had a season-high 41 points and 16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-555445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555445","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=555445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}