NBA’s defensive player of the year<\/a> added 11 rebounds, seven blocks and four steals on returning and later admitted to being “very disappointed” with aspects of the NBA’s concussion protocol.<\/p>\n“I won’t get into the details,” he said. “Ask me again at the end of the season.”<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old added: “I had lots of emotions before the game – excitement, frustration. I let it all out tonight.”<\/p>\n
The concussion protocol requires 48 hours of rest followed by a gradual return to physical activity and daily neurological tests. <\/p>\n
A player must then be cleared by his team and the NBA’s concussion programme director in order to resume playing.<\/p>\n
De’Aaron Fox scored a game-high 28 points for the Spurs, who are second seeds in the Western Conference and can clinch the series back in San Antonio on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Lakers can do the same as they return home on Tuesday, with the Houston Rockets having won 115-96 to prevent the Lakers sweeping the series.<\/p>\n
Kevin Durant (ankle) missed his third game of the series for Houston but all five of their starters reached double figures, with Amen Thompson scoring a game-high 23 points.<\/p>\n
Joel Embiid made his first appearance of the series for Philadelphia but could not prevent the 76ers losing 128-96 at home to the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n
Boston’s Payton Pritchard scored 32 points off the bench – a career high for the play-offs – while Jayson Tatum claimed 30 points and 11 assists.<\/p>\n
The Celtics, the Eastern Conference’s second seed, now lead 3-1 and can clinch the series in Boston on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Brandon Ingram and Scottie Barnes each scored 23 points as the Toronto Raptors held on for a 93-89 win at home to the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n
The Eastern Conference rivals are now level at 2-2, with game five taking place in Cleveland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama made a triumphant return for the San Antonio Spurs to help them to the brink of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-631548","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\/631548","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=631548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}