{"id":494504,"date":"2026-04-27T07:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494504"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:36:13","slug":"victor-wembanyama-returns-after-concussion-protocol-very-disappointing-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/victor-wembanyama-returns-after-concussion-protocol-very-disappointing-handling\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama returns after concussion protocol: \u201cVery disappointing\u201d handling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2327\" data-end=\"2667\">The real focus is not just the box score, but <strong data-start=\"2388\" data-end=\"2418\">Victor Wembanyama\u2019s return<\/strong> after the concussion he suffered in Game 2. The <strong data-start=\"2467\" data-end=\"2476\">Spurs<\/strong> star missed Game 3, even though he traveled with the team, because he still had to complete the final steps required by the <strong data-start=\"2601\" data-end=\"2628\">NBA concussion protocol<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2669\" data-end=\"3037\">Reports indicated that Wembanyama wanted to play in Game 3. He was not cleared by the league, and he also requested an evaluation by an independent neurologist before the decision to keep him out was confirmed. He was eventually cleared in time for Game 4, with San Antonio announcing his availability about an hour before tipoff.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3039\" data-end=\"3409\">After the <strong data-start=\"3049\" data-end=\"3059\">114-93<\/strong> win that gave San Antonio a <strong data-start=\"3088\" data-end=\"3095\">3-1<\/strong> series lead over Portland, Wembanyama said he was not saying the Game 3 decision was good or bad, but called the way it was handled \u201c<strong data-start=\"3229\" data-end=\"3251\">very disappointing<\/strong>,\u201d while still praising the doctors involved. He then backed up his return with <strong data-start=\"3331\" data-end=\"3370\">27 points, 11 rebounds and 7 blocks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3411\" data-end=\"3511\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spurs star came back in Game 4 against Portland after missing Game 3 with a concussion, then voiced frustration with how the situation was handled<\/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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-494504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"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\/494504","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=494504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494504\/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=494504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494504"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494504"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494504"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}