{"id":630960,"date":"2026-04-27T01:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T01:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:51:14","slug":"san-antonio-spurs-victor-wembanyama-clears-protocol-to-play-in-game-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630960\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs&#8217; Victor Wembanyama clears protocol, to play in Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama has cleared the concussion protocol and started Game 4 against the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wembanyama, who suffered the injury in Game 2 on Tuesday, traveled to Portland with the Spurs on Thursday afternoon while continuing to complete the steps mandated by the NBA&#8217;s concussion protocol. He was ruled out for Game 3, which the Spurs won to take a 2-1 series lead heading into Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Players must pass a series of benchmarks before being cleared for play under the concussion protocol. The results are compared to baseline neurological evaluations players take at the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wembanyama received the Spurs&#8217; medical sign-off and league clearance Sunday after passing his neurological tests and going through the other benchmarks &#8212; cardio work after 24 hours from suffering the injury and increasing his activities Thursday, Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wembanyama, the league&#8217;s first unanimous Defensive Player of the Year and one of three finalists for the MVP award, averaged 25 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and a league-best 3.1 blocks per game this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama has cleared the concussion protocol and started Game 4 against the Portland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,123459,82,164118],"class_list":["post-630960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio-spurs-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-24","tag-sports","tag-victor-wembanyama-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1373356"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630960","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=630960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}