Open Thread: Victor Wembanyama Continues To Climb The Nba All-time List For Blocks

With only a handful of games left in the regular season, it seems a good time to update where Wemby is in blocks. Keep in mind that this list is “all-time” and the accumulation here took players their entire career. He’s already a 2x Block Champ and a shoo-in for his third straight. Additionally, Wemby was just named the Defensive Player of the Month for the third month in a row. He also seems to be a lock for Defensive player of the Year, and by Kendrick Perkins estimation the first to receive the honor unanimously.

Let’s start with this. After Wednesday night’s game against the Golden State Warriors, Wemby had a total of 617 career blocks, ranking him 225th all time.

Here’s a sample set:

The next active player on the list is Daniel Gafford who currently has 649 career blocks (and still going). Everyone else from the 224th to 210th has retired.

In the near future Wemby will pass James Worthy (624), Tom Chambers (627), Spencer Haywood (629), DeSagana Diop (630), Mickey Johnson (632), Andre Iguodala (633), Danny Green (634), Shareef Abdur-Rahim and Clifford Ray (638), Nazr Mohammed (639), Kobe Bryant (640), John Henson and Dominique Wilkins (642), Jim Chones (643), and Carmelo Anthony (644).

For reference (and comparison):

Kobe Bryant played 20 seasons.

Andre Iguodala and Carmelo Anthony played 19 each.

Nazr Mohammed had 18 seasons

Tom Chambers played 16 seasons.

Danny Green and Dominique Wilkins played 15 seasons apiece.

Spencer Haywood played 13 seasons, his first with the ABA.

James Worthy, DeSagana Diop, Mickey Johnson, and Shareef Abdur-Rahim each played 12 seasons.

Jim Chones and Clifford Ray each had 10 years in the league.

John Henson managed to get his blocks all within 8 seasons.

By comparison, Wemby is just wrapping up his third season, and has missed over a half-season worth of games thus far.

He’s more advanced than anyone could have anticipated. And he shows no signs of slowing down.

To be honest, his numbers should be greater, but so many players refuse to shoot when he is in the vicinity. His presence detours so many shot opportunities.

Spurs kept Wemby in street clothes last night against the Los Angeles Clippers, but he’s expected to be back in action on Saturday as the Silver & Black face the Denver Nuggets.

Go Spurs Go!

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