SAN ANTONIO — The Spurs ruled Victor Wembanyama\u00a0out for the second half of Monday’s matchup against the Philadelphia 76ers because of a left rib contusion.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama suffered the injury in a collision with 76ers forward Paul George near the half-court line with 10:47 left in the second quarter. The two collided when Wembanyama was thrown a pass as San Antonio started to advance the ball up the floor in transition.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama subbed out after the play and headed to the locker room, before returning to the bench with 6:49 left in the first half. With 44.3 seconds left before intermission, Wembanyama asked to be subbed out again and walked back to the locker room.<\/p>\n
He didn’t come out of the locker room with the rest of the team after halftime. Minutes later, the Spurs announced the 22-year-old big man would sit out the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama played 15 minutes, 40 seconds, which will count toward eligibility for postseason awards, as players are granted two exceptions to the requirement of playing 20 minutes in a game as long as they play at least 15 minutes. The third-year veteran finished with 17 points, five rebounds and three blocks.<\/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
The Frenchman was coming off a string of three straight games in which he scored at least 30 points and tallied at least 15 rebounds with 3 blocks. The streak tied for the second-longest behind Shaquille O’Neal’s four-game run in 1999 of such games, since blocks were tracked in 1973-74, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama entered Monday’s game leading the Spurs in scoring (24.9 points per game), rebounds (11.6) and blocks (3.1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO — The Spurs ruled Victor Wembanyama\u00a0out for the second half of Monday’s matchup against the Philadelphia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,123459,82,164118],"class_list":{"0":"post-587154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-san-antonio-spurs-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-24","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-victor-wembanyama-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1373356"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587154","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=587154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}