{"id":80942,"date":"2026-11-05T07:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/hes-basically-wilt-wembanyama-downs-mavericks-with-52-point-24-rebound-classic\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T07:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:54:52","slug":"hes-basically-wilt-wembanyama-downs-mavericks-with-52-point-24-rebound-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/hes-basically-wilt-wembanyama-downs-mavericks-with-52-point-24-rebound-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s basically Wilt\u2019: Wembanyama downs Mavericks with 52-point, 24-rebound classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>22-year-old also has eight blocks in Spurs win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Frenchman scores decisive free-throw in victory<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/victor-wembanyama\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> set a career high with 24 rebounds, then sank the winning free throw with 24.2 seconds left to \u2060cap his career-best 52-point performance as the San Antonio Spurs outlasted the Dallas Mavericks 112-111 for their sixth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs home crowd hailed Wembanyama with MVP chants on Wednesday, and he also excelled on defense. The Frenchman blocked eight shots, three which of came in a span of just 13 seconds in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/nov\/05\/hes-basically-wilt-wembanyama-downs-mavericks-with-52-point-24-rebound-classic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22-year-old also has eight blocks in Spurs win Frenchman scores decisive free-throw in victory Victor Wembanyama set a career high with 24 rebounds, then sank the winning free throw with 24.2 seconds left to \u2060cap his career-best 52-point performance as the San Antonio Spurs outlasted the Dallas Mavericks 112-111 for their sixth straight victory. The &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018He\u2019s basically Wilt\u2019: Wembanyama downs Mavericks with 52-point, 24-rebound classic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/hes-basically-wilt-wembanyama-downs-mavericks-with-52-point-24-rebound-classic\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018He\u2019s basically Wilt\u2019: Wembanyama downs Mavericks with 52-point, 24-rebound classic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}