{"id":569045,"date":"2026-04-07T03:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569045\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:14:11","slug":"wembanyama-exits-spurs-win-vs-76ers-with-bruised-rib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569045\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama exits Spurs’ win vs. 76ers with bruised rib"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael C. WrightApr 6, 2026, 10:02 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Joined ESPN in 2010
\nPreviously covered Bears for ESPN.com
\nPlayed college football at West Texas A&M<\/p>\n

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SAN ANTONIO — The Spurs<\/a> ruled out Victor Wembanyama<\/a> for the second half of Monday night’s 115-102 win<\/a> over the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> because of a left rib contusion.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama suffered the injury in a collision with 76ers forward Paul George<\/a> near the half-court line with 10:47 left in the second quarter. They collided when Wembanyama was thrown a pass as San Antonio started to advance the ball up the floor in transition.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama subbed out after the play and headed to the locker room, before returning to the bench with 6:49 left in the first half. At 44.3 seconds before intermission, Wembanyama asked to be subbed out again and walked back to the locker room.<\/p>\n

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He didn’t come out of the locker room with the rest of the team after halftime. Minutes later, the Spurs announced the 22-year-old big man would sit out the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama played 15 minutes, 40 seconds, which will count toward eligibility for postseason awards, as players are granted two exceptions to the requirement of playing 20 minutes in a game as long as they play at least 15 minutes. The third-year veteran finished with 17 points, five rebounds and three blocks.<\/p>\n

The favorite to win NBA Defensive Player of the Year and a contender for MVP, Wembanyama needs to play at least 20 minutes in one of San Antonio’s remaining three games to maintain eligibility for postseason awards.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman was coming off a string of three straight games in which he scored at least 30 points and tallied at least 15 rebounds with three blocks. That was tied for the second-longest such streak since blocks were tracked in 1973-74, behind Shaquille O’Neal’s four-game run in 1999, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama entered Monday’s game leading the Spurs in scoring at 24.9 points per game, rebounds (11.6) and blocks (3.1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael C. WrightApr 6, 2026, 10:02 PM ET CloseJoined ESPN in 2010 Previously covered Bears for ESPN.com Played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-569045","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\/569045","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=569045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}