The Encyclopedia of “Oh Shit” Moments From Victor Wembanyama’s Rookie Season

AP Images/Ringer illustration The San Antonio Spurs center just won the NBA's Rookie of the Year award after one of the most impressive debut seasons in league history. These are the games, buckets, blocks, and minutiae that made our jaws drop—and that tell us where Wemby's game could be headed. The musical Rent asks, "How do you measure a year?" And in the case of Victor Wembanyama's mind-bending debut NBA season, there's really no good way. The newly minted unanimous Rookie of the Year averaged 21 points, 11 rebounds, four assists, and a league-leading 3.6 blocks per game—numbers that make him not just one of the greatest rookies the league has ever seen, but also one of the NBA's best players right now. Yet that's a rather dull way of summarizing the most thrilling individual season in recent NBA history. It's not just that Wembanyama has the statistical profile of a future MVP. It's that every time he takes the court, he makes a handful of plays that we've never even considered, let alone seen before. They don't track this on Basketball Reference, but I have to think Wembanyama led the league in guffaw rate. Laughter is the only reasonable response when a 7-foot-4...