Could Victor Wembanyama break the NBA's 5×5 record? | The Kevin O'Connor Show

Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O'Connor and NBA writer Tom Haberstroh discuss the Spurs star's sensational performance against the Jazz on Thursday night – 25 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists, 5 blocks and 5 steals – and about whether he will set a new record standard during his career. Listen to the full conversation on The Kevin O'Connor Show and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.

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Victor Wean Yama had a five-by-five win for the second time in his career.

Tom on Thursday night, 25 points, nine rebounds, seven assists, five blocks, five steals.

Only three players in NBA history had more than 15 five-game stretches at that point.

Hakeem Olajuwon had six in 1,238 games.

Andre Kollek had three and 709 27 games.

And Victor Wemba Yama had two in 76 games, so Victor had one every 38 games.

AK-47 had won all 265 games.

Hakeem had won all 206 games over Victor Wemba Yama under Tom at a rate of 49.5 to 5 in his entire NBA career.

Basically I have relays of five by five.

Um, I'm going over, I'm going, yeah, I'm going over here, Kev and I are a lot further along, give me a number, let's just say 12 years or something.

I think he will threaten to average five by five for a full season.

So I would say over 100 in his career.

Look, he's 20 years old and already has two.

OK.

If you look at the five by fives in NBA history, the average age is 26.8 years old.

It's six years further than what you normally see at five by five.

So it's six years earlier than planned.

OK.

He is 2.10 meters tall.

It is not completely filled out.

How many men who are 7 feet tall can do the things he did Thursday night?

Victor Wemba Yama.

It's time for his homemade chat gig to, uh, it was idiotic, it has to be said, it was bad.

And Kev: I voted Victor Wemba Yama as MVP this year because I thought we would see that every night.

The Five by Five threatened to do Five by Five every night.

It hadn't happened.

Against Chet, he seemed overwhelmed by the moment.

Um Chet has completely outperformed him and OKC will outperform almost everyone in this league.

Look, Vic doesn't have the same supporting cast as Chet, but it was still great to see this performance.

An understated performance from Vic.

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