{"id":194748,"date":"2025-10-07T05:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194748\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:11:09","slug":"spurs-win-preseason-opener-beat-visiting-china-team-119-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194748\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs win preseason opener, beat visiting China team 119-88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Wembanyama (9 points, 7 assists, 10 rebounds) flirted with a triple-double in his first game action since his blood clot injury in the spring. <\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Carter Bryant scored 15 points in his NBA debut, a trio of other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/spurs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spurs <\/a>players each tallied 16 and Victor Wembanyama notched some highlight-reel blocks as San Antonio defeated the visiting Guangzhou Loong Lions, 119-88, for a preseason-opening win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a smooth-sailing victory for San Antonio. The team got out to a double-digit lead after one quarter and didn&#8217;t look back, scoring 74 points by halftime. Bryant, the Spurs&#8217; second first-round pick of the 2025 NBA Draft, shined in his team-high 23 minutes, going 6-for-11 from the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Silver &amp; Black limited the Lions to just 37.7% shooting from the floor while sporting their own mark of 53.8%, including making 15 of 38 from distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    PHOTOS: Spurs victorious in preseason opener over Guangzhou Loong-Lions<\/p>\n<p>De&#8217;Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle, Dylan Harper, Devin Vassell, Jeremy Sochan, Jordan McLaughlin and Kelly Olynyk sat out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up next on the Spurs&#8217; preseason slate: a road trip to Miami on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama (9 points, 7 assists, 10 rebounds) flirted with a triple-double in his first game action since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-194748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}