{"id":483001,"date":"2026-11-01T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/483001\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:58:09","slug":"wembanyama-leads-san-antonio-against-utah-after-43-point-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/483001\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama leads San Antonio against Utah after 43-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/utah-jazz-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> (1-5, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (4-2, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">San Antonio; Monday, 8:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio faces the Utah Jazz after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/victor-wembanyama-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> scored 43 points in the San Antonio Spurs&#8217; 121-111 win against the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">San Antonio finished 62-20 overall and 36-16 in Western Conference action last season. The Spurs averaged 28.1 assists per game on 43.4 made field goals last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Utah finished 22-60 overall and 12-40 in Western Conference play during the 2025-26 season. The Jazz averaged 117.6 points per game last season, 52.7 in the paint, 18.0 off of turnovers and 17.6 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The two teams square off for the second time this season. The Spurs defeated the Jazz 117-111 in overtime in their last matchup on Oct. 29. Wembanyama led the Spurs with 36 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/keyonte-george-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keyonte George<\/a> led the Jazz with 31 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Spurs: Jayden Quaintance: out (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/tobias-harris-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tobias Harris<\/a>: out (calf).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Jazz: Jusuf Nurkic: out (foot), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/jaren-jackson-jr-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaren Jackson<\/a> Jr.: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Utah Jazz (1-5, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (4-2, sixth in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64550,70773,45464,16585,82,84,83,1066,120013,6406,509],"class_list":["post-483001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-event_preview","tag-jaren-jackson-jr","tag-keyonte-george","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tobias-harris","tag-utah-jazz","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483001","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=483001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}