{"id":467545,"date":"2026-02-11T07:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467545\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:18:09","slug":"spurs-castle-exits-vs-lakers-with-pelvis-contusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467545\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs&#8217; Castle exits vs. Lakers with pelvis contusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second-year guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/stephon-castle\/ddee4a31-2791-4339-bfc3-a058ce2d1397\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"ddee4a31-2791-4339-bfc3-a058ce2d1397\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stephon Castle<\/a> suffered a pelvis contusion against the Los Angeles Lakers and was ruled out for the remainder of the game at the beginning of the third quarter. The Athletic&#8217;s Jared Weiss <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JaredWeissNBA\/status\/2021449348425580925?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> that X-rays on the injury came back negative. <\/p>\n<p>Castle, 21, appeared to sustain the injury when he went up to block a Rui Hachimura dunk in the second quarter. He fell hard to the floor and was spotted grabbing his lower back on the way to the locker room. <\/p>\n<p>The UConn product had two points and seven assists in 11 minutes against the Lakers before being forced to exit. <\/p>\n<p>Castle entered Tuesday&#8217;s contest as the Spurs&#8217; third-leading scorer, averaging 17.1 points per game. He also leads the team in assists, dishing out 7.0 per game. <\/p>\n<p>The Spurs sit second in the Western Conference with a 36-16 record. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-year guard Stephon Castle suffered a pelvis contusion against the Los Angeles Lakers and was ruled out for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-467545","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\/467545","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=467545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}