Despite playing only 46 of 82 games, significantly less than the required 70% (or 58 games) to qualify for league leaderboards, Wembanyama is still going to win his second straight blocks title to start his career
This is possible because Wembanyama’s lead over the next league leader in blocks (3.8 per game vs Walker Kessler’s 2.4) is so significant.
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask?q=blocks+per+game+leader+2024-2025+season
An example:
In the COVID shortened 2020-2021 nba season, Myles Turner won the blocks title despite playing in 47 games, where 51 games would have marked 70%+ of the 72 game season played.
This is because (as explained below) there is an NBA rule where if a player could have recorded zero of a stat in each of the games missed short of the requirement (in this case 12 games) and still led the league in average, they will win the official title for that stat.
Wembanyama has recorded 176 blocks in 46 games - if he recorded that same number over 58 games he would average 3.03 per game.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/wembavi01.html
Only Chet Holmgren (averaging 2.8 now) can realistically challenge that average, and because of injuries the most games he can play this year is 41. As a result, Wembanyama has already locked up the blocks title