Victor Wembanyama ponders where NBA awards threshold should lie while doing lightning-quick math postgame
Wembanyama is awards-eligible and believes there should be a requirement for qualification, but he's open to the league changing the parameters.
Victor Wembanyama’s numbers are absurd. The 22-year-old, 7-foot-4 San Antonio Spurs center is averaging 25 points, 11. 5 rebounds and a league-leading 3.
1 blocks per game. But maybe more impressive are the numbers in his head. Because the French native wowed with lightning-quick math Friday night while discussing the NBA’s 65-game minimum required for awards eligibility.
“Of course, the alien gets all of it right,” a reporter said as Wembanyama made a series of calculations on the fly while mulling his stance on the subject. This has everything from Wemby surveying the media for their opinion on the 65-game rule to him doing math on the fly. https://t.
co/rsTwClMvRB pic. twitter. com/Ruj1WaRedY — Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) April 11, 2026 The exchange began in the wake of Wembanyama’s 40-point, 13-rebound performance, which helped his now-62-win Spurs defeat the Dallas Mavericks 139-120 .