Victor Wembanyama’s defense has never needed a marketing campaign. It announces itself the moment the ball leaves an opponent’s hands and the shot ends up redirected, erased, or swallowed by a wingspan that still doesn’t look real on television.
On Friday night in Atlanta, Wembanyama added another chapter to that growing mythology. With two blocks in the San Antonio Spurs’ 126–98 win over the Hawks, he reached 100 consecutive regular-season games with at least one blocked shot, extending what is now the third-longest such streak in NBA history. Only Dikembe Mutombo (116) and Patrick Ewing (145) have ever done it longer.
The raw number ‘100’ already sounds historic. The context makes it louder. Blocks have been officially tracked since the 1973–74 season, and in more than five decades of data, only two players had ever kept a streak alive this long. Wembanyama is 21. He is already living in the neighborhood of defensive immortals.
And the chase is not theoretical. With the Spurs sitting at 27 games played (meaning 55 remaining in the 82-game schedule), Wembanyama has a realistic path to run down both men before the end of the 2025–26 regular season, if his health holds and the streak survives the ordinary weirdness of NBA nights: foul trouble, blowouts, odd rotations, and the occasional opponent who refuses to challenge him at the rim.
What’s striking is how ordinary the streak can look in real time. Two blocks in a night doesn’t always dominate highlights, especially in a blowout where the Spurs’ offense and bench energy can steal the spotlight. In Atlanta, Wembanyama scored 26 points in 21 minutes and helped power a comfortable win, the kind of game where his shot-blocking can feel like background noise, until you zoom out and realize it has happened, without interruption, for a hundred straight games.
That’s the deeper point of this milestone. Great shot-blockers produce spikes, six one night, none the next, then a flurry again. Wembanyama is producing certainty. Night after night, no matter the opponent or the game script, at least one possession ends with him rewriting the shot attempt into a turnover, a reset, or a hesitation the next time down. It’s not just intimidation. It’s a statistical drumbeat.
If he reaches Mutombo, the conversation shifts from “historic” to “inevitable.” If he reaches Ewing, it becomes something else entirely: a record that stood for decades getting hunted down by a player who is still closer to the beginning of his career than the middle.
Friday’s two blocks were enough to push the streak to 100. The next 45, if he gets there, wouldn’t just pass names. They’d confirm what the league has been learning in real time since he arrived: Wembanyama isn’t a future Defensive Player of the Year candidate. He’s already producing defense on a scale that belongs to history.
