If there weren’t already plenty of reasons to marvel at Victor Wembanyama’s brilliance, the French phenom gave fans some more.
The San Antonio Spurs star powered his team past the defending-champion Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals on Monday after racking up 41 points, 24 rebounds and three blocks in a double-overtime victory.
Wembanyama was the fourth player to log a 40-point, 20-rebound game in a Conference Finals matchup, joining Charles Barkley, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Moses Malone as the only others to do so. And of that group, the 22-year-old Wembanyama was the youngest.
His antics justifiably sent the basketball world into a frenzy, so here are some of the best reactions to Wemby’s historic Game 1 performance.
