{"id":592331,"date":"2026-04-08T00:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592331\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:32:09","slug":"victor-wembanyama-avoids-major-injury-doubtful-vs-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592331\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama avoids major injury; doubtful vs. Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs<\/a> star Victor Wembanyama<\/a> is listed as doubtful for Wednesday’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> because of a rib contusion, but there’s confidence he will play again in the regular season to meet the requirements for postseason awards, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama suffered the injury in a collision with 76ers forward Paul George<\/a> in the second quarter of Monday’s win over Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

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After undergoing testing Tuesday, Wembanyama was determined to have avoided significant injury and is considered day-to-day. Because he played just 15 minutes, 40 seconds in Monday’s game, it will not count toward eligibility for postseason awards.<\/p>\n

The favorite to win NBA Defensive Player of the Year and a contender for MVP, Wembanyama needs to play at least 20 minutes in one of San Antonio’s remaining three games to maintain eligibility for postseason awards.<\/p>\n

After hosting the Trail Blazers on Wednesday, the Spurs play the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> and Denver Nuggets<\/a> at home on Friday and Sunday to close out the season.<\/p>\n

San Antonio (60-19) still has an outside shot to catch the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> (62-16) for the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference, but would need OKC to lose at least three of its final four games for a chance to move up.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Michael C. Wright contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is listed as doubtful for Wednesday’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-592331","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\/592331","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=592331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}