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Victor Wembanyama will miss Game 3 vs. Portland while continuing to recover from a concussion.<\/p>\n
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 The San Antonio Spurs said Victor Wembanyama is not available for Friday night\u2019s Game 3 (10:30 ET, Prime Video<\/a>) against Portland in the teams\u2019 first-round playoff series<\/a> while he continues to recover from a concussion.<\/p>\n Wembanyama \u2014 the league\u2019s first unanimous Kia Defensive Player of the Year<\/a> and one of three finalists<\/a> for the Kia Most Valuable Player award \u2014 went down in the second quarter of Game 2 on Tuesday night and did not return<\/a>.<\/p>\n Portland went on to win the game 106-103<\/a> in San Antonio. The series is tied heading into the third game.<\/p>\n \u201cVictor is not playing tonight. Obviously there\u2019s a lot that goes into that, but he\u2019s doing well and progressing,\u201d Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said.<\/p>\n Wembanyama traveled to Portland with the Spurs on Thursday afternoon while continuing to complete<\/a> the steps mandated by the league\u2019s concussion protocol. Earlier, he was listed as questionable for Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n Players must clear 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 Any extended absence by Wembanyama could be a massive blow to San Antonio, which finished with the league\u2019s second-best record behind the versatile 7-foot-4 center from France. They were 12-6 in the regular season without Wembanyama.<\/p>\n Wembanyama averaged 25 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and a league-best 3.1 blocks per game this season. He was also with his teammates on Wednesday evening, when they all donned cowboy hats and surprised teammate Keldon Johnson after he was announced as the league\u2019s Sixth Man of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama will miss Game 3 vs. Portland while continuing to recover from a concussion. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,193508],"class_list":["post-409560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-victor-wembanyama-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}