{"id":487872,"date":"2026-03-13T07:46:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487872"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:46:51","slug":"san-antonio-spurs-sit-wembanyama-with-sore-right-ankle-in-136-131-loss-to-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/san-antonio-spurs-sit-wembanyama-with-sore-right-ankle-in-136-131-loss-to-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs sit Wembanyama with sore right ankle in 136-131 loss to Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1047\" data-end=\"1390\">The <strong data-start=\"1127\" data-end=\"1148\">San Antonio Spurs<\/strong> were without <strong data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1183\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> due to right ankle soreness in Thursday night\u2019s 136-131 loss to the <strong data-start=\"1252\" data-end=\"1270\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1271\" data-end=\"1274\" \/>San Antonio framed the absence as short-term management, but his awards eligibility is now part of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1392\" data-end=\"1645\">The Spurs ruled him out about 45 minutes before tipoff after he tested the ankle in pregame warmups.<br data-start=\"1492\" data-end=\"1495\" \/>\u201cWe\u2019ll be mindful of all of it,\u201d coach <strong data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1551\">Mitch Johnson<\/strong> said. \u201cWe view this as very short term\u2026 it\u2019s how he\u2019s feeling versus risk of bigger picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1647\" data-end=\"1926\">Wembanyama must play 13 of San Antonio\u2019s final 16 games to remain eligible for end-of-season awards, with the NBA requiring <strong data-start=\"1771\" data-end=\"1783\">65 games<\/strong> of 20+ minutes.<br data-start=\"1799\" data-end=\"1802\" \/>He has played 51 games this season and is credited with a 52nd appearance via the NBA Cup Final for the 65-game requirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Antonio Spurs were without Victor Wembanyama due to right ankle soreness in Thursday night\u2019s 136-131 loss to the Denver Nuggets<\/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-487872","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\/487872","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=487872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487872\/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=487872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487872"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=487872"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=487872"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=487872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}