{"id":10030,"date":"2025-07-14T21:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10030\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:26:04","slug":"victor-wembanyama-cleared-to-return-by-spurs-after-blood-clot-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10030\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama Cleared to Return by Spurs After Blood Clot Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs superstar big man Victor Wembanyama has been fully cleared to resume basketball activities after deep vein thrombosis cut his 2024-25 season short.<\/p>\n

“I’m officially cleared to return,” he announced Monday (h\/t Maxime Aubin<\/a> of L’\u00c9quipe). “It just happened\u2014I got the green light from the Spurs’ medical staff just a few hours ago (last Friday). Phew, I’ll finally be able to play a bit of basketball again!”<\/p>\n

The Spurs announced on Feb. 20 that Wembanyama was expected to be lost for the remainder of the regular season due to deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder.<\/p>\n

The Spurs were optimistic about his long-term prognosis and ability to play in time for the 2025-26, however, as Tom Osborn of the San Antonio Express-News reported at the time of the diagnosis.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama averaged 24.3 points, 11.0 rebounds, 3.7 assists, an NBA-high 3.8 blocks and 1.1 steals per game in his second NBA season.<\/p>\n

He’s fulfilled his tremendous hype, and then some, after the Spurs selected the 7’3″ Frenchman with the first overall pick in the 2023 NBA draft.<\/p>\n

His first season led to a Rookie of the Year honor and a runner-up position in the Defensive Player of the Year race. His sophomore season included Wembamyama’s first All-Star Game.<\/p>\n

The Spurs have great hopes with Wembanyama as the centerpiece, obviously, and they’ve surrounded him with talents that foreshadow a bright future, including point guard De’Aaron Fox from the Sacramento Kings, second-year star Stephon Castle and newly-drafted rookie Dylan Harper.<\/p>\n

The future is bright in San Antonio, but it starts and ends with Wemby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs superstar big man Victor Wembanyama has been fully cleared to resume basketball activities after deep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}