{"id":489506,"date":"2026-03-24T08:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=489506"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:34:44","slug":"san-antonio-spurs-victor-wembanyama-makes-his-mvp-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/san-antonio-spurs-victor-wembanyama-makes-his-mvp-case\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs\u2019 Victor Wembanyama makes his MVP case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1392\" data-end=\"1564\">Victor Wembanyama strongly backed his NBA MVP case after the Spurs\u2019 convincing win over Miami. San Antonio also clinched its first Southwest Division title in nine seasons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YB7KGWwIgw8?si=xKRZlpbwbMwBOmPs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1566\" data-end=\"1782\">The French star said there should be a debate, but also made it clear he believes he should be leading the race. He pointed in particular to the value of defense, which he feels remains underrated in MVP discussions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1784\" data-end=\"1992\">Wembanyama is averaging 24.3 points, 11.2 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game, numbers that keep him firmly in the conversation. Meanwhile, the Spurs at 54-18 continue to look like one of the West\u2019s elite teams.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1994\" data-end=\"2027\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the win over Miami, San Antonio\u2019s star pointed to his two-way impact in the race for the award<\/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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-489506","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\/2024\/03\/San-Antonio-Spurs.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489506","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=489506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489506\/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=489506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489506"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=489506"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=489506"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=489506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}