{"id":487334,"date":"2026-03-09T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487334"},"modified":"2026-03-09T21:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:01:42","slug":"nba-players-of-the-week-wembanyama-takes-the-west-herro-wins-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-players-of-the-week-wembanyama-takes-the-west-herro-wins-the-east\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Players of the Week: Wembanyama takes the West, Herro wins the East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2034\" data-end=\"2384\">The NBA has named <strong data-start=\"2052\" data-end=\"2067\">Tyler Herro<\/strong> the <strong data-start=\"2072\" data-end=\"2113\">Eastern Conference Player of the Week<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2118\" data-end=\"2139\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> the <strong data-start=\"2144\" data-end=\"2185\">Western Conference Player of the Week<\/strong> for March 2\u20138. <br data-start=\"2240\" data-end=\"2243\" \/>For Miami, Herro\u2019s run since March 1: <strong data-start=\"2281\" data-end=\"2293\">26.3 PPG<\/strong>, 5.5 RPG, 4.8 APG, plus <strong data-start=\"2318\" data-end=\"2332\">3.8 threes<\/strong> per game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2386\" data-end=\"2652\">The efficiency is the headline: <strong data-start=\"2418\" data-end=\"2430\">53.7% FG<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2432\" data-end=\"2445\">51.7% 3PT<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"2451\" data-end=\"2463\">94.7% FT<\/strong> over that span. <br data-start=\"2519\" data-end=\"2522\" \/>In the West, Wembanyama\u2019s two-way dominance earned him the weekly honor for San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2654\" data-end=\"2969\">Over the award window, Wembanyama averaged <strong data-start=\"2697\" data-end=\"2712\">26.0 points<\/strong>, 10.5 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1.5 steals and a massive <strong data-start=\"2767\" data-end=\"2782\">4.75 blocks<\/strong>. <br data-start=\"2823\" data-end=\"2826\" \/>The duo\u2019s selections underline the momentum of the <strong data-start=\"2877\" data-end=\"2885\">Heat<\/strong> and the <strong data-start=\"2894\" data-end=\"2903\">Spurs<\/strong> behind their star play.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2971\" data-end=\"3116\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA selected Victor Wembanyama (Spurs) and Tyler Herro (Heat) for games played March 2\u20138<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":487333,"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-487334","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\/2026\/03\/HC_in-XWsAAhgEj.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487334","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=487334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487334"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=487334"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=487334"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=487334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}