{"id":536693,"date":"2026-03-13T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536693\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:01:07","slug":"spurs-rule-out-victor-wembanyama-ankle-vs-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536693\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs rule out Victor Wembanyama (ankle) vs. Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 12, 2026, 08:46 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8aef8547-32f5-0943-a1de-e734567674cc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sa\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> ruled out star center <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> for Thursday night&#8217;s showdown against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c4aceb39-0eb9-a30b-1120-9cb5b12b677a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> because of right ankle soreness.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs announced the decision about 45 minutes before tipoff against the visiting Nuggets and <a data-player-guid=\"22f57511-06ae-1587-f01b-33965365ce0d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3112335\/nikola-jokic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> in a battle of two of the Western Conference&#8217;s top teams.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama, who had been questionable on the NBA injury report ahead of the game, tested the ankle pregame before the Spurs opted to keep him out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll be mindful of all of it,&#8221; coach Mitch Johnson said. &#8220;Fortunately, I think regardless, this is something we view as very short term. It&#8217;s very much how he&#8217;s feeling versus risk of bigger picture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Michael C. Wright contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 12, 2026, 08:46 PM ET The San Antonio Spurs ruled out star center Victor Wembanyama for Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-536693","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\/536693","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=536693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}