After an unimaginable begin to the 2025-26 season, San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama seems poised to be the very best participant within the NBA. He has Corridor of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon partly to thank, with Wembanyama figuring out with him final summer time.
Up to now, Wembanyama has proven off some spectacular put up strikes, leading to him turning into a nightmare to cease offensively. Defensively, he’s already the very best defender within the NBA and has picked up the place he left off previous to having final season reduce brief.
In simply his second common recreation of the season, he blocked a staggering 9 photographs and has blocked a minimum of 5 photographs 4 occasions within the Spurs’ first 5 video games. That has put him on tempo to shatter Olajuwon’s document for profession blocks, which Olajuwon totally expects to occur.
“The one individual I see that may break my document is Wemby for positive.”
— Hakeem Olajuwon on Victor Wembanyama’s potential pic.twitter.com/ZloB89Lkws
— First Issues First (@FTFonFS1) October 22, 2025
Hakeem Olajuwon predicts Wembanyama will break the blocks document
At this level in Wembanyama’s profession, it seems that he’s a lock to finally break the document, with him greater than 100 blocks forward of Olajuwon’s tempo in the identical quantity of video games. Even regardless of Wembanyama lacking half of his second season.
By means of their first 120 NBA video games:
🔸Victor Wembanyama: 1301 REB
🔸Karl Malone: 1091 REB🔸Wembanyama: 2738 PTS
🔸LeBron James: 2680 PTS🔸Wembanyama: 274 3PM
🔸Stephen Curry: 242 3PM🔸Wembanyama: 448 BLK
🔸Hakeem Olajuwon: 337 BLKONE OF ONE 👽 pic.twitter.com/PAsz8FTe2k
— Basketball Perpetually (@bballforever_) October 30, 2025
It’s also price noting Wembanyama is presently practically 3 years youthful than Olajuwon was when he made his NBA debut. Which means he isn’t solely properly forward of his Olajuwon’s tempo but additionally far youthful too.
The one factor probably stopping him from breaking that document is Wembanyama being unable to remain wholesome. Hopefully, he can as a result of he could possibly be an all-time nice if he does.
It will take him enjoying 1049 video games to interrupt Olajuwon’s document, assuming he continues to dam 3.7 photographs per recreation. That could be a tall activity, even for Wembanyama, with no participant his dimension having performed wherever close to that quantity of video games.
Longevity will likely be key for Victor Wembanyama to catch Olajuwon
With 3,830 being the mark that Wembanyama has to surpass, it’s ironic that that’s even the official quantity. The earlier document holder, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, amassed greater than 3,200 blocks, however the first six seasons of his profession weren’t counted.
Contemplating he blocked about 200 photographs per season between his sixth and twelfth seasons, it is affordable that the document needs to be a minimum of 4,000. That’s not to say Invoice Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, who each may need blocked much more had that stat been counted.
However, Wembanyama is on tempo to interrupt Olajuwon’s document. He’ll simply need to play lengthy sufficient to have the ability to make historical past.
