Barring the unexpected, Victor Wembanyama will be locked up for this year's Rookie of the Year award, and it's a crushing division. It looks like Victor Wembanyama is a superstar barring a serious injury, and he's been compared to a large number of Hall of Famers.
Local media posted pictures comparing the data of Victor Wembanyama and Yao Ming. The difference is that the former only includes his rookie season, while the media lists Yao Ming's highest single-game stats in his entire career, and even so, Victor Wembanyama only has two stats at the bottom, which shows how talented he is.
Victor Wembanyama's rookie season is not over yet, and he has only played 68 games so far, although Yao Ming is riddled with injuries in the middle and late stages, he has played 486 games in his career, which is still a big gap. Judging from the comparison of the six listed statistics, Yao Ming only has two advantages, namely the 03-04 season against the Atlanta Hawks, scoring a career-high 41 points, and Victor Wembanyama against the New York Knicks last month, also scoring 40 points, and then Yao Ming in the 05-06 season against the Suns, grabbing a career-high 22 rebounds, and Victor Wembanyama also grabbed 20 rebounds against the Knicks.
With the remaining four statistics, Victor Wembanyama's single-game performance even surpassed Yao Ming's career. The former had a career-high 10 assists against the Pistons, Yao Ming had seven assists against the Hawks in the 03-04 season, and Victor Wembanyama had more steals, blocks and three-point shots per game than Yao Ming in his entire rookie season, which is indeed an exaggeration.
However, it is probably too early to say that Victor Wembanyama is better than Yao Ming, or that his career achievements are higher, and the three details cannot be ignored. First of all, the times and rules are different, and now the pace of offense and defense is faster, which is conducive to players playing gorgeous statistics, unlike the NBA nearly 20 years ago, which advocated defense and confrontation. Secondly, Victor Wembanyama has been the absolute core of the team since he was selected, although he is talented, but it is also related to having a lot of opportunities and the right to fire, on the contrary, Yao Ming has been the second leader for most of his career, and rarely gets the absolute core role. Finally, you can say that Victor Wembanyama performed better than Yao Ming at the beginning of his career, or a little higher, but don't think that Yao Ming is inferior to him at the top. After all, Yao Ming's dominance on the inside in the 08-09 season is undoubted, and as a result, he suffered a devastating injury, and that kind of performance may not be able to play even if Victor Wembanyama reaches his peak in a few years.