Victor Wembanyama becomes third NBA player with multiple 5×5 games

In between giving his teammates plenty of reasons for celebratory high-fives at the end of the game on Halloween night, Victor Wembanyama’s box score confirmed he also had another type of five-on-five in mind. Seemingly dedicated to performing tasks that 7-foot-4 players aren’t supposed to be capable of, Thursday’s game was seemingly dedicated to Wembanyama giving Salt Lake City sweet treats on the field throughout the victory on Oct. 31, 2024. Excellence arrived almost immediately , as Wembanyama helped the San Antonio Spurs shake free of the metaphorically appropriate “cobwebs,” erasing a slow start through a rebound, followed by an audacious coast-to-coast pull-up triple. Far from done, the superstar in silver-and-black offered his trademark assortment of abnormal-normal acts. Defend both the ballhandler and the screener in the pick-and-roll? Using his sprawling eight-foot wingspan to both pickpocket point guards and deliver behind-the-back feeds to teammates in transition? Want to join “The Point God” for spiritual experiences through alley-oop connections over the edge? The big sophomore had it all, and did it all against the Utah Jazz, becoming just the third player in league history ever to record multiple five-by-five screens. Ironically dressed as “Slenderman” upon arrival, Wembanyama’s anything but slender stat line finished as follows: 25 points (on 9-of-20 shooting), nine rebounds, seven assists, five steals, five blocks, four trifectas and a +43 plus -minus.