{"id":498703,"date":"2026-05-28T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498703"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:59:59","slug":"nba-warns-victor-wembanyama-over-media-rules-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-warns-victor-wembanyama-over-media-rules-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA warns Victor Wembanyama over media rules violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The <strong>NBA<\/strong> has warned <strong>Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> for violating media access rules after the <strong>San Antonio Spurs<\/strong>\u2019 Game 5 loss to the <strong>Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">According to <strong>ESPN<\/strong>, Wembanyama was not made available to reporters after San Antonio\u2019s 127-114 defeat, which left the Spurs trailing 3-2 in the Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The French star finished with 20 points on 4-of-15 shooting, while coach <strong>Mitch Johnson<\/strong> said the Spurs are \u201cgoing to need to\u201d get their center going to avoid elimination in Game 6.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA has fined players in the past for skipping media availability after playoff games, including <strong>Jimmy Butler<\/strong> and <strong>Dillon Brooks<\/strong>, who each received $25,000 fines in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The league issued a warning to the San Antonio Spurs star after he did not speak to reporters following Game 5 against Oklahoma City<\/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-498703","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\/498703","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=498703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498703\/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=498703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498703"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498703"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498703"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}