Victor WembanyamaSan Antonio Spurs · #1
Victor Wembanyama is a generational two-way superstar for the San Antonio Spurs and the 2026 Defensive Player of the Year — the youngest ever and the first unanimous winner in NBA history. The No. 1 pick of 2023 and unanimous 2024 Rookie of the Year, the 7-foot-4 Frenchman led the NBA in blocks three straight years and carried San Antonio to the 2026 Finals as Western Conference Finals MVP, all after recovering from a 2025 blood clot.
Victor Wembanyama — the report card
Read his whole game at a glance, then dive into any skill. Grades from the DNA model + real production.
Where Victor Wembanyama stands
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Victor Wembanyama — every number, three levels deep
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How the model sees Victor Wembanyama
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Victor Wembanyama career stats, season by season
| Season | GP | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | FG% | 3P% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 71 | 29.7 | 21.4 | 10.6 | 3.9 | .465 | .325 |
| 2024-25 | 46 | 33.2 | 24.3 | 11.0 | 3.7 | .476 | .352 |
| 2025-26 | 64 | 29.2 | 25.0 | 11.5 | 3.1 | .512 | .349 |
| Career | 181 | 30.4 | 23.4 | 11.0 | 3.6 |
The Lab
Every number, live and interactive. Real career data; models labeled.
Are the San Antonio Spurs built to win?
Team projection rolled up from the roster + last-season baselines — and what it means for his role.
The Ballad of Victor Wembanyama
Birth to now — the making of a legend, narrated and scored.
The beginning
A 7-foot-4 unicorn who moves like a guard and blocks shots like no one ever has — the generational face of the Spurs.
Turning pro
Drafted 1st overall, 2023 as a Center.
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A 7-foot-4 'alien' who moves like a guard — and became the first unanimous Defensive Player of the Year after a life-threatening blood clot.
Chapter
A French prodigy and youngest-ever LNB MVP, Wembanyama went No. 1 in 2023 — the Spurs' third, after Robinson and Duncan — and won a unanimous Rookie of the Year.
Chapter
He led the NBA in blocks three straight years, redefining rim protection with an ~8-foot wingspan.
Off the court
- Height
- 7'4"
- Weight
- 235 lb
- Draft
- 1st overall, 2023
- Born
- Le Chesnay, France
- Age
- 22
- Jersey
- #1
Wembanyama is as cerebral off the court as he is dominant on it: fluent in self-taught English, a chess player, a devotee of science fiction, art, and literature, and a member of the French Order of Merit. He comes from a basketball family — his mother Élodie coached and played, his sister Ève plays professionally — and famously spent about ten days training in kung fu at China's Shaolin Monastery before the 2025-26 season.
LeBron James called him 'more like an alien... no one has ever seen anyone as tall as he is but as fluid and graceful.' The 'Alien' and 'Wemby' nicknames capture a player without precedent: a 7-foot-4 center with an ~8-foot wingspan who handles, shoots step-back threes, and blocks shots at a record rate — and who answered a life-threatening blood clot with the best defensive season the award has ever seen.
A cerebral, unprecedented two-way force — guard skills and record-setting rim protection in a 7-foot-4 frame.
Victor Wembanyama — frequently asked
The questions people ask most about Victor Wembanyama, answered.
