Deal Completed: Victor Wembanyama A New, Long Term Contract With The San Antonio Spurs.
His rookie performance has been impressive, averaging at least 21.3 points, 9.6 rebounds, and 3.3 blocks per game over the past three months, alongside a 47.1% success rate in field goals.
Wembanyama is also set to play in the 2025 NBA Paris Game, as Coach Gregg Popovich has confirmed they will be going to France next season.
Born near Paris and played for a team there before joining the NBA, the French phenom believes he still has room to grow. He said,“It’s a day-by-day thing, but what’s for sure is I’m not even close to being at my best. I don’t see my progression stopping anytime soon. So it’s good for confidence, and it’s a lot to correct. A lot to adjust.”
His comment came after an overtime win on Sunday night against the Brooklyn Nets, one of his best performances of the season. Scoring scored 33 points on 14 of 26 shooting with 15 rebounds, seven assists, and seven blocks.
This season, the Spur’s rookie star Wembanyama is one of just 12 players who are averaging 10 or more rebounds per game this season.
As also recorded, Wemby averaged over one assist and one rebound more per game in February than in January, also improved his three-point shooting, jumping from 32.4% to 41.3% over that span.
In February alone he posted his personal best in assists (4.5), blocks (3.9), and steals (2.0) per game while posting his highest three-point shooting percentage in any one full month.
Basketball sensation Victor Wembanyama is looking forward to a magical return to Paris as his amazing first year goes on.
The San Antonio Spurs, with Wembanyama, are set to play in the 2025 NBA Paris Game Coach Gregg Popovich confirmed they will be going to France next season. Wembanyama, 20, was born near Paris and played for a team there before joining the NBA.
He attended to the NBA Paris Game in 2023 and could be the main star in a year’s time. The Spurs have played in Paris before, as they had a match against the Memphis Grizzlies in 2003. Tony Parker was great in that game, scoring 19 points. It was their first match after winning the NBA championship that year.
Popovich has been coaching the Spurs for a long time. By the time they go to Paris again, it will be his 29th season. He mentioned the trip to Paris when he was talking about a game in Austin, Texas. When asked if the Spurs would play in Paris next year, Popovich simply said: “Well, we’re going there.”
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Wembanyama was naturally asked about what would be a homecoming for him. “I’m looking forward to it very much,” he told reporters.
“Obviously, it’s going to be probably the game or the games that are going to be very important for me because, of course, it’s me coming back from where I come from, especially might be in my city or around the city. So it’s going to be very special.
“Also, it is going to allow me to see maybe my family in the middle of the season, which doesn’t happen often. So it’s great.”
Wembanyama considering the possibility of playing more than once in France comes months after Parker shared at this year’s game that he expects two fixtures to be held in his country next season. If so, they would be the eighth and ninth games played there.
Nine years before the Spurs played the Grizzlies, the Golden State Warriors met the Charlotte Hornets in 1994. Preseason games also happened in 2008, when the New Jersey Nets beat the Miami Heat in overtime, and 2010, as the Minnesota Timberwolves topped the New York Knicks.
A decade later, the league had its first regular season game on French soil as the Hornets, who had French national team player Nicolas Batum on its roster, lost to the Milwaukee Bucks. The COVID-19 pandemic then shelved plans for the NBA Global Games until 2022.
