Victor Wembanyama delivered one of his biggest games of the season on Monday night, finishing with 41 points and 16 rebounds as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Chicago Bulls 129-114. The win was San Antonio’s ninth in a row and moved the Spurs to 57-18, still two games behind Oklahoma City with seven left to play.
This was not just a big scoring night. It was another reminder of how dangerous San Antonio look heading into the run-in. Spurs finished March 14-2 after going unbeaten in February, which shows how sharply their form has risen over the last two months.
Wembanyama set the tone early
Wembanyama had 21 points and 12 rebounds by halftime as San Antonio blew the game open in the second quarter. Spurs turned a one-point game into a 64-47 halftime lead with a 23-7 burst, and Wembanyama was central to that swing.
The double-double angle is where the game gets tricky but still impressive. According to some reports, this is the fastest double-double in NBA history, with Wembanyama reaching 10 points and 10 rebounds in 8 minutes, 31 seconds. NBA’s own note framed it slightly differently, calling it a double-double in 8:25 of game action and the third-fastest since play-by-play tracking began in 1997-98. Either way, the start was historically fast.
Spurs are turning this into a real race
The bigger story is what nights like this mean for San Antonio. The Spurs are not just winning. They are stacking pressure on the Thunder at the top of the West while Wembanyama keeps producing MVP-level numbers. Reuters noted that this was already his third 40-point game of the season.
Stephon Castle added 21 points, while Keldon Johnson scored 15 and three other Spurs finished in double figures. Chicago, already eliminated from postseason contention, got 23 points from Tre Jones and 21 from Leonard Miller, but they never regained control after the second-quarter collapse.
What this means
For Wembanyama, this was another star-performance box to tick. For the Spurs, it was a statement that their surge is still real. When a team wins nine straight, closes March at 14-2, and keeps getting this kind of dominance from its best player, the title conversation stops sounding premature.
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