In the midst of an NBA All-Rookie First Team season, San Antonio Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama put up one astonishing stat line after another. So, as impressive as this is, perhaps it shouldn't surprise: the generational talent became the fifth player in NBA history to have six games with 25 or more points, at least 10 rebounds, five or more assists and at least five blocks in a single season. He joined Shaquille O’Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the only players to do so.

Fellow Silver and Black legend Robinson accomplished the 25-10-5-5 stat line six times during his only Most Valuable Player season, which came in 1994-95. O'Neal did it in 2000-01, the season following his only league MVP with the Los Angeles Lakers. Similarly, Hakeem Olajuwon was all-NBA the year he put together such a string of games for the Houston Rockets. Abdul-Jabbar pulled of the feat in five different seasons over a career that many basketball experts consider one of the five, if not three, best in basketball history.

Wemby did it as a rookie.

All-Rookie icing on the cake for Victor Wembanyama

In very much expected news, Wembanyama was unanimously selected to the 2023-24 Kia NBA All-Rookie First Team on Monday. It comes two weeks after the French marvel unanimously won Rookie of the Year honors.

Appearing in 71 games (all of them starts), the 7-foot-4 center averaged 21.4 points, 10.6 rebounds and a league-leading 3.6 blocks to go with 1.2 steals in just 29.7 minutes per contest. He led all rookies in scoring, rebounds and blocks and scored in double figures in 68 of his 71 contests.

The 20-year-old big man put up 20-plus points 41 times through a a historic rookie campaign. Six times, he scored more than 30 and added a 40-point game when he also grabbed 20 rebounds in an overtime victory against the New York Knicks.

Wemby pulled down 10-plus rebounds 44 times. He recorded double-digit assists once and it resulted in his first NBA triple-double when he also notched 16 points and 12 rebounds in a blowout win against the Detroit Pistons.

The Spurs' leading scorer blocked 10 shots once as well. It came in his second triple-double, which marked the NBA's with blocks since 2021 and the first including blocks by a rookie since David Robinson in 1990. Wembanyama scored 27 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and dished out five assists in that February 12th victory at the Toronto Raptors.

The Defensive Player of the Year runner-up registered four games with 30-plus points, 15-plus rebounds and five-plus assists, which is the most games by a rookie since Sidney Wicks in 1971 and tied for the third-most all time among rookies. In a true display of his all-around game, the All-Rookie forward finished the season with 26 games where he recorded 20 or more points and at least one block, steal, assist and made three-pointer, the most by a rookie all-time. He finished his first full season of basketball in the U.S. with 43 double-doubles to go along with the two triple-doubles.

Victor Wembanyama is the 12th player in Spurs franchise history to be named All-Rookie and the first to receive First-Team honors since Kawhi Leonard in 2011-12.