{"id":490376,"date":"2025-12-23T06:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/490376\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:09:16","slug":"spurs-announce-victor-wembanyama-injury-update-before-thunder-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/490376\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs Announce Victor Wembanyama Injury Update Before Thunder Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Wembanyama<\/a> has played in all of the San Antonio Spurs<\/a>\u2019 last four games after returning from a calf injury. The 7-foot-4 big man was forced to miss 12 straight games after sustaining a calf strain in a game against the Golden State Warriors<\/a> on Nov. 14, and it wasn\u2019t until nearly a month later that he was able to return.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama made his comeback on Dec. 13 as he helped lead the Spurs to a 111-109 victory over the defending champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>, in the NBA<\/a> Cup semifinal.<\/p>\n

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The Spurs and the Thunder are set to face off again on Tuesday, but the bad news is that Wembanyama has popped up on the injury report.<\/p>\n

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San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) during practice prior to the Emirates NBA Cup championship.Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Wembanyama picked up right where he left off following his lengthy spell on the sidelines<\/a>. His return has been pivotal to San Antonio\u2019s recent success, with the team winning four straight games since Wembanyama came back. During that stretch, the 21-year-old has produced averages of 19.3 points on 56.0% shooting, 10.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 2.5 blocks and 1.0 triples, despite coming off the bench for just 20.3 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n

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Wembanyama, however, could be heading to the sidelines again for Tuesday\u2019s game against the champs. The Spurs announced on Monday via the official injury report<\/a> that Wembanyama is questionable to play against OKC due to left calf injury management.<\/p>\n

It appears that the Spurs want to give their cornerstone superstar a night off on Tuesday as they continue to manage his return from a calf injury. If Wembanyama does not suit up, Luke Kornet and Kelly Olynyk<\/a> are the primary candidates to see increased minutes.<\/p>\n

San Antonio and Oklahoma City play each other twice in three days. These two teams are set to battle again on Thursday in a highly anticipated Christmas Day showdown. If Wembanyama ends up missing Tuesday\u2019s game, it\u2019s likely that he will be back on the court on Dec. 25.<\/p>\n

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The Spurs are currently 21-7 and are second in the Western Conference. They are 4.0 games behind the Thunder for the No. 1 seed.<\/p>\n

Related: NBA in Disbelief Over Victor Wembanyama Sequence During Spurs Game<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Dec 23, 2025, where it first appeared in the NBA<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama has played in all of the San Antonio Spurs\u2019 last four games after returning from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,1716,164,2289,4996,6,475,179,969,474,4075,4074,534,38345,2594,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-490376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-calf-injury","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-kelly-olynyk","12":"tag-luke-kornet","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-oklahoma-city","15":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","18":"tag-sanantonio","19":"tag-sanantoniospurs","20":"tag-spurs","21":"tag-straight-games","22":"tag-the-spurs","23":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115767395675260956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490376","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=490376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}