{"id":343856,"date":"2025-12-12T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343856\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:14:07","slug":"sources-victor-wembanyama-expected-to-return-for-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343856\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Victor Wembanyama expected to return for Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8aef8547-32f5-0943-a1de-e734567674cc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sa\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> star <a data-player-guid=\"0e8844b2-d923-3926-82d2-f19a29d69490\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5104157\/victor-wembanyama\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> is expected to return for Saturday&#8217;s NBA Cup semifinal against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bd458c44-2d33-47eb-cebc-35d3d4ac595c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> in Las Vegas, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p>The final clearance will come after Friday&#8217;s practice for Wembanyama, who has been sidelined since Nov. 14 due to a left calf strain. Wembanyama returned to practice this week and has taken part in multiple 5-on-5 sessions.<\/p>\n<p>After he suffered the injury against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77a8546f-24bf-a333-8161-bf9f75396c49\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> last month, the Spurs have been cautious with Wembanyama. San Antonio has gone 9-3 without Wembanyama, winning its last two NBA Cup group play games and Wednesday&#8217;s quarterfinal over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2876e98b-b9bc-2920-4319-46e6943f8be4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his third season, Wembanyama is averaging career highs in points (26.2), rebounds (12.9) and assists (4.0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is expected to return for Saturday&#8217;s NBA Cup semifinal against the Oklahoma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-343856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343856","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=343856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}