Victor Wembanyama has the only 99 Block Rating in NBA 2K27, and that part isn’t up for debate. Nobody’s arguing he doesn’t deserve it. The more interesting number is how far below him the next name sits, because the gap says something 2K’s marketing copy never quite spells out: there’s a real, uncrowded tier of NBA rim protection right now, and Wembanyama is standing in it alone.
He backs it up with the box score. Wembanyama averaged 3.1 blocks per game last season, a mark that would headline a highlight reel on its own even before you get to the 25 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists he was putting up in the same 64 games. That kind of shot-blocking rate, from a player who’s also his team’s primary scoring option, doesn’t have many recent comparisons. Most of the league’s elite rim protectors are defensive specialists who aren’t asked to do anything else on the other end.
Why Does Victor Wembanyama Have a 99 Block Rating in NBA 2K27?
Victor Wembanyama is the only player in NBA 2K27 with a 99 Block Rating, out of every center, forward and guard the game rates. He earned it by averaging 3.1 blocks per game across 64 games in the 2025-26 season as San Antonio’s primary rim protector, and 2K’s ratings staff apparently couldn’t find a second name close enough to matter.
That last part is the detail worth sitting with. Video game ratings usually round up for star power, a marketing department’s way of making the cover-adjacent guy feel special. This one didn’t need to. The season is right there in the numbers, and the numbers already made the case before anyone at 2K touched a slider.
The Gap Between 99 and 97 Is Bigger Than It Looks
Second place belongs to Alexandre Sarr, the Wizards center, at 97. On a 0-to-99 scale, a two-point gap reads like a rounding error, the kind of margin that makes two players feel basically interchangeable. It isn’t. 2K’s own rating site describes a clear gap between the two, and the full top-10 list backs that up: Jay Huff and Chet Holmgren tied at 96, Donovan Clingan at 95, then Evan Mobley, Zach Edey and Rudy Gobert bunched at 94. Every name on that list is a center. No wing, no guard, nobody who has to guard in space cracks the group.
Here’s where it gets weird. Sarr is a promising young shot-blocker still building his role on a rebuilding roster, and Washington’s frontcourt is already crowded with bigs competing for minutes. That’s a very different situation from a 22-year-old who is already the defensive anchor of a playoff team. A 2K27 content creator posted a reaction to the rating reveal that captured the general vibe pretty well:
https://twitter.com/Sprague2kYT/status/2092347967546036473
The reaction is fair. A 99 is rare enough that it reads as a statement even before you dig into who’s behind it. But the number that should actually surprise people isn’t the 99. It’s that nobody in the frame below him is playing Wembanyama’s role at Wembanyama’s level, which is exactly why the gap holds up under scrutiny instead of collapsing the moment you check the film.
What a Fully Healthy Wembanyama Season Actually Looks Like
The 3.1 blocks per game came from a season that wasn’t fully healthy. Wembanyama missed 18 of 82 games in 2025-26, including a 12-game stretch out with a calf strain. Earlier in the year, a separate issue (he stepped on a ball boy’s foot before a game) put him on a restricted-minutes stretch and forced him to sit out some back-to-backs during recovery. That’s missed time and managed minutes stacked on top of each other, not a healthy 82-game workload padded by choice.
Run the math on what that means and the case for the 99 gets stronger, not weaker. A player compiling the league’s most dominant block rate while playing 22% fewer games than a full season, and while working through a chunk of the remaining games on a restriction, is not a player who topped out. I’ve run rougher models than this for fun (my fantasy baseball projections have worse weeks than this comparison), and even by that lower bar, a full, unrestricted Wembanyama season is the more likely source of the outlier number, not the ceiling on it.
None of that is separate from what he means to San Antonio right now. This is a player who left $51 million on the table for the Spurs to build around him, and a defensive rating this uncontested is exactly why that bet keeps looking smart. NBA 2K27 hits shelves September 4, with early access opening August 28, and the 99 will be the first thing anyone who loads up San Antonio notices.
A video game accidentally published an accurate scouting report here, built on a season Wembanyama didn’t even get to finish healthy. Give him a full one, and 97 stops being the closest anybody gets.
