The San Antonio Spurs have become one of the better teams in the Western Conference this season as center Victor Wembanyama has blossomed into an MVP candidate for coach Mitch Johnson's team. San Antonio was defeated by the surging Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday by a score of 118-116 as Wembanyama was frustrated by a swarming defensive strategy.

Victor Wembanyama is certainly one of the best players in the NBA already, but one major challenge is stopping him from being the best.

Before the sixth game of the regular season, Victor Wembanyama looked nothing short of inexorable. The San Antonio Spurs star was an unstoppable f

Victor Wembanyama and Kevin Durant traded poster dunks in the third quarter before the younger Spurs star led his team past the Rockets vet.

The San Antonio Spurs and Victor Wembanyama have unlocked a new level of play, and there's only one major question to be answered.

Some of this could be solved with better shooting. As of this writing, the Spurs are shooting 14 of 43 (32.6%) from 3 off Wembanyama’s passes. Harrison Barnes and Julian Champagnie are notably shooting a combined 3 of 14 (21.4%) on those looks — that should bounce back in a major way as the sample grows.

San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama dunked over Los Angeles Lakers guard Bronny James during the team's two-point loss on Wednesday night.

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Texas quarterback Arch Manning and some Longhorn teammates visited San Antonio to watch the Spurs defeat the visiting Houston Rockets 121-110 on Friday. Manning also did a Spurs jersey swap with San Antonio superstar big man Victor Wembanyama.

Arch Manning has great size as a 6-foot-4, 220-pound quarterback for the Texas Longhorns. He looked like a child when posing next to San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama on Friday night, though.