{"id":199,"date":"2026-08-04T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor-elementor\/wembanyama-blocks-record-pace\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T21:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:16:24","slug":"wembanyama-blocks-record-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wembanyama-blocks-record-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama is blocking shots at a pace the league has never seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 3.9 blocks a night, the third-year center is not just leading the league \u2014 he is lapping it, and opponents have stopped testing the paint entirely.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The advanced numbers tell the same story from a different angle. Since the calendar turned, the lineup&#8217;s net rating has climbed into the league&#8217;s top five, driven almost entirely by transition defense and a sharp cut in turnovers.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The medical staff will re-evaluate in two weeks, but the timeline matters less than the structure around it. Minutes restrictions, back-to-back management and a deep rotation give the training staff room to be conservative.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The margin for error at this stage of the season is razor thin, and both benches knew it. Every possession in the fourth quarter was contested like a playoff closeout, with coaches burning timeouts early to stop runs before they became avalanches.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 3.9 blocks a night, the third-year center is not just leading the league \u2014 he is lapping it, and opponents have stopped testing the paint entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}