Spurs' De'Aaron Fox Reveals Stunning Victor Wembanyama Fact

The legend of Victor Wembanyama is unfolding in real time.

The 7-foot-4 Frenchman is in his first playoff run with the San Antonio Spurs. Since the start of this year’s NBA playoffs, Wembanyama, 22, has been named the uanimous Defensive Player of the Year and to the All-Defensive First Team and All-NBA First Team.

The Spurs are knotted at 2-2 with the reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals. In Game 1, Wembanyama announced himself as the best player in the world with a 41-point, 24-rebound performance in a double-overtime victory.

Two days later, ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne published an opus about Wembanyama’s transformative time at the Shaolin Temple in China last summer, including an anecdote that Wembanyama dribbled a basketball up a “dangerous mountain” in four and a half hours.

So, Wembanyama wasn’t fazed by the proverbial mountain his Spurs had to climb while down 2-1 to the Thunder on Sunday night. In Game 4, he logged 33 points on 50% shooting from the field, eight rebounds, five assists, three blocks, and two steals in the Spurs’ 103-82 win.

Afterward, Spurs veteran All-Star point guard De’Aaron Fox added to the legend.

“Everything that you hear about Vic is true,” Fox said on NBC’s “NBA Showtime” postgame broadcast. “He don’t wanna see blue light after 9 o’clock. He reads books. He’s not on his phone.”

Fox added:

“When we have games that end close to midnight, he comes to the locker room with blue light glasses on. Like, ‘I gotta get ready to get my recovery.’ He’s a 22-year-old doing the things that he does, and he truly loves the game and truly takes care of his body. Out of all the things he does [for] basketball, he’s a better person.

It’s hard to describe the way that he is as a human being because he’s such a phenomenal basketball player, but he’s a better person than he is as a basketball player.”

Thunder All-Star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander - and all of the Thunder, for that matter - probably take exception to the universal anointing of Wembanyama. Alexander just received his second straight NBA MVP award, and the Thunder are still the reigning champions. But regardless of who wins this series to reach the 2026 NBA Finals, Wembanyama is the future.

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This story was originally published May 25, 2026 at 8:17 PM.