SAN ANTONIO — Basketball superstar Victor Wembanyama has been a maestro of the blocked shot to start his NBA career, tallying 430 rejections at the rim to lead the league over the last two years.

More impressive is that the San Antonio Spurs' 7-foot-3 alien recorded 28 more blocks last season than second-place Brook Lopez of the Milwaukee Bucks despite playing in 34 fewer games following his blood clot diagnosis in February. Lopez missed just two games all season and, at his rate of 1.85 blocks per game, would have needed the regular season to be 16 games longer to catch up to Wemby.

Wembanyama finished with a monstrous 3.8 blocks per game. The runner-up in that category: Utah's Walker Kessler, who tallied 2.4 per game but sat out 24 matchups.

Per a relatively new NBA rule,

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