{"id":470292,"date":"2025-11-18T08:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=470292"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:48:06","slug":"san-antonio-spurs-victor-wembanyama-out-a-few-weeks-with-left-calf-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/san-antonio-spurs-victor-wembanyama-out-a-few-weeks-with-left-calf-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs&#8217; Victor Wembanyama out a few weeks with left calf strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1344\" data-end=\"1590\"><strong data-start=\"1344\" data-end=\"1365\">San Antonio Spurs<\/strong> center <strong data-start=\"1373\" data-end=\"1394\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> will <strong data-start=\"1400\" data-end=\"1420\">miss a few weeks<\/strong> due to a <strong data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1450\">left calf strain<\/strong>, sources told <em data-start=\"1465\" data-end=\"1488\">ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/em> on Monday. The 21-year-old underwent an <strong data-start=\"1529\" data-end=\"1546\">MRI on Sunday<\/strong> and will be <strong data-start=\"1559\" data-end=\"1587\">reevaluated in 2-3 weeks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1839\">The Spurs opted to rest Wembanyama as a precaution after he experienced <strong data-start=\"1664\" data-end=\"1689\">tightness in his calf<\/strong> before Sunday\u2019s win over the Kings. The setback comes two days after a dominant 26-point, 12-rebound, 4-assist, 3-block outing versus the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1841\" data-end=\"2112\">Wembanyama is averaging <strong data-start=\"1865\" data-end=\"1912\">26.2 points, 12.9 rebounds, and 4.0 assists<\/strong> this season while leading the NBA with <strong data-start=\"1952\" data-end=\"1975\">3.6 blocks per game<\/strong>. In his absence, <strong data-start=\"1993\" data-end=\"2008\">Luke Kornet<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2010\" data-end=\"2026\">Kelly Olynyk<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"2032\" data-end=\"2051\">Bismack Biyombo<\/strong> are expected to share minutes in San Antonio\u2019s frontcourt.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2114\" data-end=\"2200\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio taking cautious approach with franchise cornerstone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":375602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-470292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/San-Antonio-Spurs.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470292"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=470292"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=470292"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=470292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}