{"id":382583,"date":"2026-01-02T01:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382583\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:24:07","slug":"victor-wembanyamas-mri-shows-no-ligament-damage-in-hyperextended-knee-all-star-to-miss-spurs-pacers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382583\/","title":{"rendered":"VIctor Wembanyama’s MRI shows no ligament damage in hyperextended knee; All-Star to miss Spurs-Pacers game"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 The San Antonio Spurs<\/a> say an MRI showed center Victor Wembanyama<\/a> sustained no ligament damage in his injured left knee, and their All-Star center will not play Friday in Indiana.<\/p>\n

The Spurs said Thursday that Wembanyama\u2019s status is day-to-day. He did not travel with the team to face the NBA-worst Pacers (6-28), and instead will rehabilitate the injury in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama hyperextended his left knee with just under 11 minutes remaining in San Antonio\u2019s 134-132 victory over the New York Knicks<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama said he felt fine after the game and expected to play Friday against the Pacers, but said San Antonio\u2019s medical staff could decide otherwise depending on tests.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a good thing it was just a hyperextension,\u201d Wembanyama said. \u201cIt should be minimal, whatever this thing is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wembanyama was injured while leaping to gather an offensive rebound over Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> with 10:32 left in the rematch of the NBA Cup final. Wembanyama lost possession when he landed. Replays showed there was no contact with a defender, but Wembanyama\u2019s left foot slid forward.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama remained on the court while New York went on offense. Spurs forward Kelly Olynyk<\/a> intentionally committed a foul so the Spurs could check on Wembanyama. Spurs guards Stephon Castle<\/a> and De\u2019Aaron Fox helped Wembanyama get up before he hobbled straight to the locker room unassisted.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama was heard yelling \u201cI\u2019ll be back!\u201d several times to the fans as he ran through the tunnel toward the locker room while emphatically throwing his hands down.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama returned to San Antonio\u2019s bench with 1:22 remaining in the game without a limp and watched as the Spurs rallied to beat the Knicks.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama is averaging 24.3 points and 11.7 rebounds for the Southwest Division-leading Spurs (24-9).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 The San Antonio Spurs say an MRI showed center Victor Wembanyama sustained no ligament…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-382583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}