{"id":412328,"date":"2026-01-16T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412328\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T03:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:55:07","slug":"wembanyama-returns-after-limping-off-court-early-vs-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412328\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama returns after limping off court early vs. Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/victor-wembanyama\/98e2cdeb-69dc-499c-a853-84c32c714924\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"98e2cdeb-69dc-499c-a853-84c32c714924\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> returned to the court after limping off with a right leg injury in the opening minutes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio-spurs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"san-antonio-spurs\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>&#8216; game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama returned to the bench at the close of the first quarter and was on the court to start the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama dropped to the court after making knee-to-knee contact with the left leg of Milwaukee&#8217;s Giannis Antetokounmpo under the Bucks basket with 9:18 remaining in the first quarter. Antetokounmpo was driving to the rim when the two made contact.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama remained on the court for a few seconds before rising and hobbling unassisted in a half sprint toward the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama suffered a hyperextended knee on Dec. 31 in the fourth quarter against the New York Knicks in a similar play. He returned to the bench but missed the next two games.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio enters Thursday&#8217;s game on a two-game skid, including a 119-98 loss at Oklahoma City on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Victor Wembanyama returned to the court after limping off with a right leg injury in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-412328","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\/412328","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=412328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}