{"id":109158,"date":"2026-01-03T03:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109158\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T03:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:25:20","slug":"san-antonio-spurs-beat-free-falling-indiana-pacers-without-victor-wembanyama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109158\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs beat free-falling Indiana Pacers without Victor Wembanyama"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 De\u2019Aaron Fox scored 24 points and the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> won their first game since Victor Wembanyama<\/a> injured his left knee, beating the Indiana 123-113 on Friday night for the Pacers\u2019 11th straight loss.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama hyperextended his knee Wednesday night in a home victory over New York. An MRI showed no ligament damage and the 7-foot-4 center stayed in San Antonio to rehabilitate the injury.<\/p>\n

Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said Wembanyama is day-to-day but wouldn\u2019t rule out the possibility he could play against Portland on Saturday night in San Antonio. The Spurs are 10-3 with Wembanyama doesn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

Dylan Harper<\/a> added 22 points for the Spurs, and Stephon Castle<\/a> had 19.<\/p>\n

Pascal Siakam<\/a> led Indiana with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Andrew Nembhard<\/a> had 19 points, and Micah Potter<\/a> added 16 in his first start in five games with Pacers.<\/p>\n

The Pacers shot 51% while the Spurs made 44% overall. San Antonio made 22 of 28 free throws while Indiana was 13 of 15.<\/p>\n

The Spurs scored the first six points of the third quarter to to make it 77-58. The Pacers regrouped to cut it to 93-85 after three quarters. San Antonio maintained control throughout the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Spurs Host Portland on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Pacers: At Orlando on Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

Mark Ambrogi, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 De\u2019Aaron Fox scored 24 points and the San Antonio Spurs won their first game since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-109158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}