WIZARDS SPELLBOUND AS WEMBY DROPS 50

He has career-high in points and threes in a game to lead San Antonio to 139-130 win

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Victor Wembanyama knows he is a talented player, but even so, he did not expect his latest achievement on Nov 13 in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

The 20-year-old became the fourth-youngest player to score 50 points in an NBA game when he led the San Antonio Spurs to a 139-130 home win over the Washington Wizards.

The first overall pick in the 2023 draft rattled up his career-high 50 points in just 33 minutes and ended the game on 18-29 shooting with eight three-pointers - also a career high.

The Spurs center, whose previous highest-scoring game was 40, was at a loss to explain his incredible performance.

"I'd love to tell you that you wake up a certain way or you feel really smooth during warmups, but at the end of the day, in NBA games, we got one game every other day," he said, referring to the packed schedule.

"So every time we struggle to warm up, we have pain, you know, we sweat, we bleed on the court, so it's really a minute-to-minute thing, it comes to 48 minutes every game."

It was the third straight game in which Wembanyama had hit at least six threes.