{"id":590825,"date":"2026-04-08T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590825\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:02:09","slug":"spurs-rule-out-victor-wembanyama-vs-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590825\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs rule out Victor Wembanyama vs. Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2123690\" class=\"wp-image-2123690 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wemby-iso-032426-784x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"441\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2123690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Wembanyama is averaging 24.8 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.1 blocks over 63 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (AP)\u00a0\u2014 Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle will miss the Spurs\u2019 game Wednesday night against the Portland Trail Blazers, San Antonio announced.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama suffered a left rib contusion during the first half of Monday\u2019s 115-102 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n<p>Castle, who had 17 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds in that game, had been listed as doubtful Wednesday with right knee soreness following the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama had 17 points, five rebounds and three blocks in 15:40 against the Sixers. It constituted an official game per the NBA guidelines, which allow two exceptions of 15 to 19:59 minutes to count toward the league-required minimum of 65 games played for award eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama, an MVP, defensive player of the year and All-NBA hopeful, still needs one more game (and at least 20 minutes played) to be eligible for those individual awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama is averaging 24.8 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.1 blocks over 63 games this season. SAN ANTONIO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,224958,82,162495,166898],"class_list":["post-590825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers-vs-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-victor-wembanyama-injury","tag-wemby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590825","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=590825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}