{"id":511692,"date":"2026-01-02T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/511692\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:04:14","slug":"wembanyama-to-miss-spurs-nba-game-friday-at-indiana-reports-nation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/511692\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama to miss Spurs&#8217; NBA game Friday at Indiana: reports | Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Wembanyama\u00a0will miss San Antonio&#8217;s NBA game on Friday at Indiana after suffering a\u00a0hyper-extended left knee in a Spurs victory over New York, according to multiple reports on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN and the San Antonio Express-News reported that the 21-year-old French star did not make the trip to Indianapolis and will receive more care in Texas despite an MRI on Thursday that showed no ligament damage.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama, who turns 22 on Sunday, will be listed as questionable for Saturday&#8217;s home game against Portland, ESPN reported. The next Spurs game after that is Tuesday at Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama was injured in San Antonio&#8217;s 134-132 home victory over New York on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs are 24-9 and rank second in the Western Conference, 4.5 games back of NBA-best Oklahoma City, and third overall in the league behind the Thunder and Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama is averaging 24.3 points, 11.7 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.9 blocked shots a game in 21 appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p>js\/lp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama\u00a0will miss San Antonio&#8217;s NBA game on Friday at Indiana after suffering a\u00a0hyper-extended left knee in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22985,7,736,1407,6,1007,11,1408,179,474,24240,6718,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-511692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-afp","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-men","11":"tag-national-basketball-association","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-on-espn","14":"tag-nba-playoffs","15":"tag-nba-teams","16":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","17":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","18":"tag-seasons-in-american-basketball","19":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","20":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115825414167366767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511692","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=511692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}