Victor Wembanyama

For a while, Game 3 looked like it might become one of those wild Minnesota comeback nights; where the building starts shaking, Anthony Edwards starts hunting, and the other team …

Chris Finch said it best afterward: the Timberwolves got punked. San Antonio beat Minnesota 133-95 in Game 2, evening the series at 1-1 and handing the Wolves the worst postseason …

Victor Wembanyama lost the game and still somehow made history feel like it belonged to him. In San Antonio’s 104-102 Game 1 loss to Minnesota, Wembanyama blocked 12 shots, setting …

Minnesota did not look whole. It looked dangerous anyway. The Timberwolves beat the Spurs 104-102 in Game 1, stealing home-court advantage in San Antonio. Anthony Edwards returned and gave Minnesota …

Rudy Gobert was asked what surprised him about Victor Wembanyama as an Olympic teammate, and the answer did not involve a blocked shot, a practice dunk or some impossible angle …

Victor Wembanyama was asked about something larger than basketball, and he answered like someone unwilling to inherit an old lie. French reporter Maxime Aubin framed the question around the insults …

When Shaquille O’Neal called Victor Wembanyama “the first perfect big man that’s ever been created,” it sounded, at first, like the kind of oversized sentence only Shaq can deliver. But …

Game 5 did not become a thriller. It became a statement. The San Antonio Spurs closed out Portland with a 114-95 win at Frost Bank Center, and the night had …

Rudy Gobert has spent enough years in the NBA to recognize the difference between losing an award and feeling erased by it. Victor Wembanyama was the unanimous and historically inevitable …