{"id":417772,"date":"2025-11-18T03:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/417772\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:20:13","slug":"spurs-victor-wembanyama-calf-strain-sidelined-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/417772\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs&#8217; Victor Wembanyama (calf strain) sidelined indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1884412\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1884412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wemby-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1884412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Wembanyama is averaging 26.2 points, 12.9 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 3.6 blocks over 12 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama has been diagnosed with a left calf strain that will sideline him indefinitely, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Spurs say an MRI has confirmed a left calf strain for Victor Wembanyama: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ll6S6fkfrE\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ll6S6fkfrE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1990537195716030527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania and Michael C. Wright, Wembanyama is expected to miss 2-3 weeks due to the injury.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">League source says Spurs will re-evaluate Victor Wembanyama in 2-3 weeks. He&#8217;ll be out at least 2 weeks. Spurs are being especially cautious given all the calf injuries we&#8217;ve seen lately turn into something worse. For what it&#8217;s worth, I&#8217;m told Vic feels fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael C. Wright (@mikecwright) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikecwright\/status\/1990539026668106015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama has a left calf strain and is expected to be sidelined for a few weeks, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bqxDL9y6up\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bqxDL9y6up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1990536551726768337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama underwent the MRI on Sunday, when he sat out of\u00a0San Antonio\u2019s victory\u00a0against the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0suffered the injury\u00a0Friday against the Golden State Warriors. He had 26 points, 12 rebounds, four assists and three blocks in\u00a0the 109-108 loss.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama is averaging 26.2 points, 12.9 rebounds, 4.0 assists and leads the league with 3.58 blocks per game.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio is off to its best start in a decade at 8-4, including a franchise-record 5-0 start.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama was limited to 46 games last season after being diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis. He underwent surgery to help clear the blood clot and no long-term issues were expected.<\/p>\n<p>Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama is averaging 26.2 points, 12.9 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 3.6 blocks over 12 games this season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,62589],"class_list":{"0":"post-417772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-victor-wembanyama-injury"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115568550249067288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}