Victor Wembanyama scores career-high 50 points in Spurs’ win

SAN ANTONIO — Spurs star Victor Wembanyama scored a career-high 50 factors — together with a career-best eight 3-pointers — in a 139-130 win over the Washington Wizards on Wednesday evening.

“My first thought is finally I would like the remainder of our performances, the remainder of our video games, to overshadow this one,” Wembanyama mentioned. “I wish to make it the place sooner or later, [this is] simply one other one.”

Clearly, it isn’t.

Previous to Wembanyama, the previous three 50-point video games produced by Spurs got here in time beyond regulation outings. David Robinson in 1994 logged the franchise’s most up-to-date 50-point efficiency in regulation.

At 20 years and 314 days, Wembanyama is the fourth-youngest participant to attain 50 factors. At 7-foot-4, he is additionally the tallest to take action.

Wembanyama’s earlier profession excessive was 40 factors in a 130-126 time beyond regulation victory in opposition to the New York Knicks in March of final season.

He made his presence felt nearly from the onset Wednesday, helping or scoring on 4 consecutive discipline objectives over the primary 67 seconds as San Antonio seized a 13-3 lead.

“The large fella, man, when he comes out with that mindset, it is a exhausting alternative to cope with,” Spurs ahead Julian Champagnie mentioned. “Large reward to him, huge shoutout to him. He is engaged on his recreation. I do not know what it was that he took private, however he took one thing private, went on the market and hooped.”

Wembanyama inflicted a lot of the harm within the third quarter, capturing an ideal 7-of-7 from the ground and 4-of-4 from lengthy vary for 19 factors to go along with 4 rebounds, one help and a block.

He piled up practically half his factors on the evening from past the arc, the place he hit 8-of-16.

“In case you checked out them, they have been good, rhythm pictures,” Spurs interim coach Mitch Johnson mentioned. “The gravity that he occupies, or pulls, is exclusive. So, when he makes pictures away from the basket, it is simply going to drag that gravity, for positive.”

Wembanyama was 18-of-29 from the sphere and added 6 rebounds and three blocks in 32 minutes en path to changing into the primary participant in league historical past with 20 3-pointers and 13 blocks over a three-game span.

For his profession, Wembanyama has now recorded a 50-point recreation, a 5×5 recreation and a 10-block recreation. Simply three different gamers — Anthony Davis, Hakeem Olajuwon and Robinson — can lay declare to these accomplishments since blocks turned an official statistic in 1973-74.

It took Wembanyama 83 profession video games to document his first 50-point recreation, the fourth-fewest video games wanted for the reason that NBA/ABA Merger in 1976-77.

After ending up a fast carry within the weight room, Wembanyama walked over for remedy, admitting he deliberate to “replicate” in the course of the session on his newest milestone. Wembanyama additionally confessed to watching the scoreboard at instances as he approached 50 factors.

“I like to rejoice the small wins and the massive wins for a sure period of time,” he mentioned. “However tomorrow, we’re already locked in on the Lakers. I will give myself a bit of little bit of time to replicate. It is positively a giant milestone. It is form of a personal membership. It is definitely one thing I am happy with.”

ESPN Analysis contributed to this report.