{"id":483534,"date":"2026-02-13T10:01:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=483534"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:01:04","slug":"barca-on-high-alert-over-vesely-acute-lower-back-pain-tests-coming-one-week-before-the-copa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/barca-on-high-alert-over-vesely-acute-lower-back-pain-tests-coming-one-week-before-the-copa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar\u00e7a on high alert over Vesely: acute lower-back pain, tests coming one week before the Copa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2050\" data-end=\"2373\">Maximum concern at <strong data-start=\"2069\" data-end=\"2085\">FC Barcelona<\/strong> over <strong data-start=\"2091\" data-end=\"2105\">Jan Vesely<\/strong>, who suffered <strong data-start=\"2120\" data-end=\"2145\">acute lower-back pain<\/strong> during the EuroLeague loss to <strong data-start=\"2176\" data-end=\"2204\">Paris Basketball (74-85)<\/strong>. The Czech center asked to be subbed early in the third quarter and was essentially unable to impact the second half, as Bar\u00e7a slipped to 55-67 heading into the fourth.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2375\" data-end=\"2704\">Vesely is expected to undergo <strong data-start=\"2405\" data-end=\"2422\">medical tests<\/strong> to determine the severity of the issue, and his availability for Sunday\u2019s <strong data-start=\"2497\" data-end=\"2512\">5:00 pm CET<\/strong> game vs <strong data-start=\"2521\" data-end=\"2537\">BAXI Manresa<\/strong> is described as \u201cvirtually impossible\u201d. The key question is whether he can be ready for the <strong data-start=\"2630\" data-end=\"2638\">Copa<\/strong> next week, where he is crucial to Barcelona\u2019s frontcourt balance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2706\" data-end=\"3092\">The injury list is already crowded: <strong data-start=\"2742\" data-end=\"2762\">Tomas Satoransky<\/strong> is dealing with back problems and has missed games, while <strong data-start=\"2821\" data-end=\"2837\">Kevin Punter<\/strong> is racing to return from a <strong data-start=\"2865\" data-end=\"2882\">left adductor<\/strong> injury. Head coach <strong data-start=\"2902\" data-end=\"2918\">Xavi Pascual<\/strong> summed up the situation bluntly: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2953\" data-end=\"3023\">Everything\u2019s been broken for a while and we\u2019re surviving as we can<\/strong>,\u201d stressing how the absence of multiple starters is taking its toll.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3094\" data-end=\"3252\">Vesely has played <strong data-start=\"3112\" data-end=\"3124\">42 games<\/strong> this season (26 in EuroLeague, 16 in Liga Endesa), but the timing of this setback leaves Bar\u00e7a waiting anxiously for good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Czech big man was almost unable to play the second half vs Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":483533,"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":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-483534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/Jan-Vesely.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483534","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=483534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483534"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=483534"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=483534"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=483534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}