{"id":464565,"date":"2025-10-15T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464565"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:04:14","slug":"inside-victor-wembanyamas-transformative-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/inside-victor-wembanyamas-transformative-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Victor Wembanyama\u2019s transformative summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1478\" data-end=\"1854\">After a <strong data-start=\"1486\" data-end=\"1515\">shoulder thrombosis scare<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1517\" data-end=\"1538\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> turned his summer into a quest for growth. The <strong data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1607\">San Antonio Spurs<\/strong> phenom trained at a <strong data-start=\"1628\" data-end=\"1655\">Shaolin temple in China<\/strong>, practiced Kung Fu, and later joined <strong data-start=\"1693\" data-end=\"1712\">Hakeem Olajuwon<\/strong> in Texas to master footwork and balance. \u201cIt was life-changing,\u201d Wembanyama said. \u201cI\u2019ve learned lessons nothing else could have taught me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1856\" data-end=\"2120\">Olajuwon helped him refine moves like the <strong data-start=\"1898\" data-end=\"1913\">Dream Shake<\/strong> and a new <strong data-start=\"1924\" data-end=\"1937\">jump hook<\/strong>, calling him \u201ca big guard who can play all five positions.\u201d Spurs coach <strong data-start=\"2010\" data-end=\"2027\">Mitch Johnson<\/strong> praised his dedication: \u201cHe\u2019s constantly finding ways to evolve, physically and mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2122\" data-end=\"2307\">Now stronger and sharper, <strong data-start=\"2148\" data-end=\"2157\">Wemby<\/strong> is ready for the court. \u201cNobody trained like I did this summer,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve maxed out everything I could. Now, I just need to play basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2309\" data-end=\"2356\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"2309\" data-end=\"2323\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Shaolin monks to Hakeem Olajuwon\u2019s camp, the Spurs star rebuilt his body and mind for a new season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":375602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-464565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/San-Antonio-Spurs.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464565"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464565"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464565"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}