Spurs star Victor Wembanyama goes off for 25 points in first-8 minutes alone in game vs. Lakers
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Victor Wembanyama scored 25 first-quarter points against the Lakers and 37 by halftime.
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Victor Wembanyama does it all on the basketball court. On Tuesday he put his scoring hat on. 

The San Antonio Spurs superstar dropped 25 points against the Los Angeles Lakers, all in the first quarter. And he sat for the final 4:01 of the stanza at Crypto.com Arena.

It was a remarkable scoring output that no other Spurs player has produced in the play-by-play stat-tracking era dating back to 1997-98. That includes the tail end of David Robinson's career, Kawhi Leonard's Spurs prime and the entirety of Tim Duncan's career.

He did it from inside and out and tallied most of those points during a stretch in which he scored 17 consecutive Spurs points.

WEMBY JUST WENT OFF IN Q1!

25 PTS (8-9 FGM)
3 REB
3 3PM

New career-high in PTS for a quarter 👽 pic.twitter.com/Sgk2wuVixO

— NBA (@NBA) February 11, 2026

Wembanyama went 8-of-9 from the field and 3-of-4 from the 3-point line while adding three rebounds. The Spurs piled up a 47-30 lead against a Lakers team playing without Luka Dončić, LeBron James or Austin Reaves. The missed game was James' 18th of the season, which made him ineligible for end-of-season awards and snapped his unprecedented 21-year All-NBA streak.

By halftime, Wembanyama had 37 points on 12-of-17 shooting from the floor, 10-of-12 shooting from the line and 3-of-5 shooting from behind the arc. He added nine rebounds, two assists, one steal and one block in a stat line that would be outstanding for any NBA star for a full game. 

The Spurs built an 84-55 lead at that point over the shorthanded Lakers. And with San Antonio on the first half of a back-to-back set, there wasn't a ton of motivation to play him much after halftime.

Wembanyama dropped three points in the third quarter to get to 40 on the night. By the end of that period, the Spurs' lead had ballooned to 34 points. 

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