{"id":291264,"date":"2025-11-17T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291264\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:25:07","slug":"sources-spurs-victor-wembanyama-out-for-few-weeks-with-calf-strain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291264\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama out for few weeks with calf strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael C. WrightNov 17, 2025, 04:54 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Joined ESPN in 2010
\nPreviously covered Bears for ESPN.com
\nPlayed college football at West Texas A&M<\/p>\n

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Spurs<\/a> star center Victor Wembanyama<\/a> will be sidelined for a few weeks due to a left calf strain, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Monday.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are erring on the side of caution in bringing back the franchise cornerstone, who underwent an MRI on Sunday. A source told ESPN that Wembanyama will be re-evaluated in 2-3 weeks.<\/p>\n

Listed as questionable early Sunday due to left calf tightness, Wembanyama was ruled out<\/a> ahead of tip-off of the Spurs’ victory<\/a> against the Sacramento Kings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Obviously, we’ve seen around this league recently, the calf-tightness thing is not something you want to take lightly,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said Sunday. “Don’t want to push it there.”<\/p>\n

Wembanyama, 21, played 38 minutes during a physical NBA Cup matchup Friday<\/a> against the Golden State Warriors<\/a> and scored a team-high 26 points with 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks. It was Wembanyama’s third-straight performance with 25 points and 10 rebounds, which matched the longest such streak of his career, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n

Veteran free-agent addition Luke Kornet<\/a> started in Wembanyama’s place on Sunday and finished with 13 points on 5-of-5 shooting with three blocks. San Antonio specifically targeted Kornet in free agency to anchor the team’s frontcourt during the minutes when Wembanyama was off the floor. Kornet finished with a plus-minus of 13 in the win over the Kings.<\/p>\n

Veteran Kelly Olynyk<\/a> will also likely see an increase in minutes in Wembanyama’s absence along with Bismack Biyombo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his third season, Wembanyama is averaging career-highs in points (26.2), rebounds (12.9) and assists (4.0) while leading the league in blocks per game (3.6).<\/p>\n

Wembanyama was seen in the locker room after Sunday’s game wearing a small sleeve on his injured left calf but showed no signs of discomfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael C. WrightNov 17, 2025, 04:54 PM ET CloseJoined ESPN in 2010 Previously covered Bears for ESPN.com Played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-291264","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\/291264","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=291264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}