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Michael C. WrightJan 2, 2026, 10:02 AM<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Joined ESPN in 2010 SAN ANTONIO — An MRI on Thursday showed that San Antonio Spurs<\/a> star center Victor Wembanyama<\/a> did not suffer ligament damage to the left knee he hyperextended Wednesday night in a win over the New York Knicks<\/a>, league sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n Wembanyama didn’t travel with the Spurs to Indianapolis for Friday’s game against the Indiana Pacers<\/a> because team officials want him to take advantage of the treatment options available at Victory Capital Performance Center, sources said. He’s officially listed as out for the Pacers matchup.<\/p>\n Sources told ESPN that he will be listed as questionable for Saturday’s home game against the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> and is considered day-to-day as he deals with left knee soreness.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Wembanyama suffered the injury with 10:32 remaining against the Knicks as he battled Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> and Jordan Clarkson<\/a> for a rebound under the basket. Upon landing on the floor, Wembanyama immediately grabbed at his left knee. Teammate Stephon Castle<\/a> stepped in to help Wembanyama back to his feet, and the center hobbled to the locker room under his own power.<\/p>\n As he left the floor, he yelled to fans in attendance at Frost Bank Center, “I’ll be all right.” Wembanyama then returned to the bench with 1:22 left to play, wearing team warmups. He finished with 31 points and 13 rebounds in 24 minutes.<\/p>\n “It was just a hyperextension, so it should be minimal,” Wembanyama said after the game. “I was confident. I was this close to coming back in the game. [They] had to hold me back.”<\/p>\n Wembanyama sat out 12 games earlier this season because of a left calf strain. The third-year center returned to the Spurs lineup Dec. 13 during the semifinal round of the NBA Cup against the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> and came off the bench in his first six games after the injury before making his first start Dec. 27 in a 127-114 loss to the Utah Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wembanyama leads San Antonio in scoring (24.0 points per game), rebounding (11.6) and blocks (3.0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael C. WrightJan 2, 2026, 10:02 AM CloseJoined ESPN in 2010 Previously covered Bears for ESPN.com Played college…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-385813","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\/385813","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=385813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPreviously covered Bears for ESPN.com
\nPlayed college football at West Texas A&M<\/p>\n