{"id":488176,"date":"2026-03-15T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=488176"},"modified":"2026-03-15T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:15:54","slug":"wembanyama-i-want-to-win-mvp-and-defensive-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wembanyama-i-want-to-win-mvp-and-defensive-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama: &#8220;I want to win MVP and Defensive Player of the Year&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Wembanyama continues to put on a show on both ends of the floor, as he did in the San Antonio Spurs win over the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>He finished with 32 points, 12 rebounds, 4 blocks and 8 assists. The French phenom thinks that his Playmaking is a skill that is often overlooked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s one more weapon\u2026 My playmaking most of the time happens by rolling and not even touching the ball, getting guys open by my positioning with my gravity. But I can do that, too.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wembanyama also revealed he has two major goals for the last part of the regular season.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cRight now, in my mind, it\u2019s about taking great care of my body because I want to win MVP and Defensive Player of the Year. So I\u2019m trying to push the accelerator from now until the end of the season.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reference to his body is no coincidence, as the 22-year-old Spurs star cannot miss more than three of the remaining 15 games if he wants to remain eligible for the league\u2019s individual awards.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wemby&#039;s Double-Double (32 PTS &amp; 12 REB) Best Streaking Hornets | March 14, 2026\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iAn4-34vt98?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wembanyama is producing 24.3 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3 assists and an NBA-leading 3 blocks per game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":488175,"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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-488176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/victor-wembanyama.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488176","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488176"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=488176"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=488176"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=488176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}