French NBA star spent 10 days with monks in China last June, when he learned kung fu and meditation in system centred on focus and balance.

According to Ramona Shelburne, Victor Wembanyama had to eat high-protein meat meals inside a hidden sprinter van while training at the Shaolin Temple Victor Wembanyama, the standout star of the San Antonio Spurs, is one of the league’s elite players, but ...

Wembanyama reveals the one challenge during his Shaolin Temple training that he simply couldn’t master.

Here's how monks in central China helped turn Victor Wembanyama into what he has now become: the most unstoppable force in basketball.

Victor Wembanyama has made the San Antonio Spurs impossible to ignore again, but his 10-day Shaolin retreat in China may say more about his future than any single playoff performance. The 22-year-old has been at the centre of fresh attention in May 2026 after discussing his time at the historic Shaolin temple with Malika Andrews,

The San Antonio Spurs star told ESPN's Malika Andrews he wanted to learn how to do a backflip when he spent time with monks at a Shaolin temple during the offseason but was unable to complete the task (3:15 mark).

Shaolin Temple is the birthplace of Buddhism's Chan Sect (Zen) in China as well as the cradle of China's Shaolin Wushu (martial arts). Shaolin Temple is located at Dengfeng county, Zhengzhou city of Henan province. It is the birthplace of Buddhism's Chan ...

Following the scandal involving the abbot of the Shaolin Temple, a new storm has erupted with Hu Chenglin, president of the Shaanxi Taoist Association – the cradle of this ancient religious trad