{"id":316901,"date":"2026-04-11T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=316901"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:43:10","slug":"wembanyama-scores-40-in-sixty-fifth-game-to-steer-spurs-past-mavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/wembanyama-scores-40-in-sixty-fifth-game-to-steer-spurs-past-mavs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama scores 40 in sixty fifth game to steer Spurs past Mavs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"FOR_target_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_670987\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-670987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama, center right, greets fans after an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks, Friday, April 10, 2026, in San Antonio. (AP Photo\/Darren Abate)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Victor Wembanyama had 40 points and 13 rebounds in his sixty fifth game to develop into eligible for NBA awards, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Dallas Mavericks 139-120 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>De\u2019Aaron Fox had 18 points and 10 assists and Keldon Johnson had 17 points for San Antonio.<\/p>\n<div id=\"billboard_article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rookie Cooper Flagg had 33 points, six rebounds and five assists for Dallas, which has lost 11 of 13.<\/p>\n<h4>READ: NBA: Wembanyama suffers rib injury, status for normal season unknown<\/h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WEMBY WENT OFF IN SAN ANTONIO&#8217;S WIN!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc7d 40 PTS\ud83d\udc7d 13 REB\ud83d\udc7d 5 AST\ud83d\udc7d 2 STL<\/p>\n<p>Playing just 26 minutes and 13 seconds, Wemby records the fastest 40p\/10r\/5a game in NBA history \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FtrJ66RmWl\">pic.twitter.com\/FtrJ66RmWl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2042797872593146351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After opening the season with a 40-point game against Dallas, Wembanyama reached 40 for the fifth time in what may very well be his regular-season finale.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA requires a minimum of 65 games played to be eligible for season-long awards and Wembanyama got there in San Antonio\u2019s penultimate game.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ztoop\">\n<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i>\t\t  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 7-foot-4 Wembanyama, who leads the league with 197 blocks, is favored to win Defensive Player of the Yr, based on BetMGM Sportsbook.<\/p>\n<p>He missed Wednesday\u2019s 112-101 victory over Portland after suffering a left rib contusion throughout the first half of Monday\u2019s 115-102 win over Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama quickly showed he was superb by stepping through three defenders to throw down a right-handed dunk to open the scoring. He added one other dunk and a step-back 3-pointer while scoring 16 points within the opening period.<\/p>\n<div id=\"billboard_article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<h4>READ: Wembanyama wants to depart little question that he\u2019s the NBA MVP<\/h4>\n<p>The Spurs won the Southwest Division for the primary time since 2017 and have secured the No. 2 seed within the Western Conference. San Antonio opens the postseason against a team that makes it through the play-in tournament \u2014 either Phoenix, the Los Angeles Clippers or Portland.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio closes its regular season at home Sunday against Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs guard Stephon Castle stays out with left foot soreness. Coach Mitch Johnson said Castle is near returning.<\/p>\n<h2>Up next<\/h2>\n<p>Mavericks: Host Chicago on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs: Host Denver on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama, center right, greets fans after an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks, Friday, April 10, 2026, in San Antonio. (AP Photo\/Darren Abate) SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Victor Wembanyama had 40 points and 13 rebounds in his sixty fifth game to develop into eligible for NBA awards, and the San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[43831,585,657,14345,1158,1206,1788],"class_list":["post-316901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-65th","tag-game","tag-lead","tag-mavs","tag-scores","tag-spurs","tag-wembanyama"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316904,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316901\/revisions\/316904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}