{"id":624275,"date":"2026-05-05T05:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/624275\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:07:08","slug":"victor-wembanyama-sets-single-game-playoff-blocks-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/624275\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama sets single-game playoff blocks record"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Wembanyama records 11th block to set a single-game playoff record.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Wembanyama saved his biggest effort for the biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs\u2019 star center set an NBA playoff record for blocks with 12 Wednesday night in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/min-vs-sas-0042500231\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game 1<\/a> of San Antonio\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2026\/west-semifinal-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western Conference semifinal series<\/a> against Minnesota. The record, which spans the play-by-play era (since 1973-74) was previously shared by Mark Eaton (1985), Hakeem Olajuwon (1990) and Andrew Bynum (2012), who each logged 10 in a game.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama, the league\u2019s first unanimous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/kia-nba-defensive-player-of-the-year-award-2025-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kia Defensive Player of the Year<\/a>, averaged 3.1 blocks per game during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The former No. 1 overall pick \u2013 and the 2024 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year \u2013 struggled with his shot against the Timberwolves, finishing with 11 points on 5-for-17 shooting in the 104-102 loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama records 11th block to set a single-game playoff record. Victor Wembanyama saved his biggest effort for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11838,355,99,32090],"class_list":["post-624275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-blocks","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624275","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=624275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}