I’m calling it now: this is not a cute little hot streak. This is a problem. The Spurs winning 122-96 over the Suns on Nov. 9, and doing it for their ninth straight victory, looks like a team that has stopped asking permission and started taking games by force.
And the headline number is the whole story. 122-96. That is not a coin-flip game. That is a statement. The Spurs moved to 9-2, and the Suns were left staring at a score that says the gap was real, loud, and ugly. When a team stacks a ninth straight win on top of that kind of margin, you’re not talking about luck anymore. You’re talking about momentum with teeth.
Victor Wembanyama was the center of it again, because of course he was. The Yahoo Sports report says he had 40 points and 9 blocks. Forty. Nine. BLOCKS. I need everybody to sit with that for a second. That is not normal basketball. That is a one-man weather event. When one player can tilt the floor that hard, the rest of the league has to start adjusting its whole mood around him.
What makes this even more brutal for Phoenix is the timing. The Suns were at home at Mortgage Matchup Center on Nov. 9, and still got run right out of the building. That’s the part that stings. Not just losing. Losing while the other side keeps extending a streak that now sits at nine games. That’s how a night turns from disappointing to demoralizing.
And let’s be honest: streaks like this don’t happen by accident. They happen when a team is locked in, when the best player is playing like the best player on the floor every night, and when opponents keep finding out the hard way that there is no easy answer. The Spurs are 9-2 now. That record matters. The nine straight matters more.
So yeah, I’m impressed. More than impressed. I’m paying attention. Because when a team wins like this, and Wembanyama is putting up 40 points and 9 blocks in the same breath, you’re not looking at a nice little run. You’re looking at a team that has arrived with force.
