{"id":244363,"date":"2026-04-11T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244363\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:08:10","slug":"wembanyama-to-return-for-matchup-against-dallas-mavericks-in-fight-for-mvp-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244363\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama to return for matchup against Dallas Mavericks in fight for MVP title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Wemby is set to return to the court after recovering from his rib injury, keeping him in the running for MVP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Victor Wembanyama WILL play tonight against Dallas. Went through his warmup and has the green light to go.&#8221; sources tell Don Harris.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/fox-scores-25-points-to-lead-short-handed-spurs-past-trail-blazers-112-101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fox scores 25 points to lead short-handed Spurs past Trail Blazers 112-101<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama was absent for the Spur&#8217;s match-up against the Trail Blazers on Wednesday, April 8, after suffering a bruised rib in a game against the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama needs to play at least 20 minutes in one more game to reach the league-required minimum of 65 games for award eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/wembanyama-listed-as-doubtful-with-rib-bruise-for-tonights-game-against-portland-san-antonio-texas-spurs-frost-bank-center-fans-points-rebounds-basketball-nba-mvp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wembanyama, Castle are out for tonight&#8217;s game against Portland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senior NBA insider Chris Haynes is reporting that Wembanyama had an MRI and nothing serious showed up.<\/p>\n<p>Victor did not play in the second half of the Spurs&#8217; win over the Sixers, but plenty of players stepped up in his absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Wemby is set to return to the court after recovering from his rib injury, keeping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-244363","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244363","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=244363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}