{"id":519624,"date":"2026-01-06T05:57:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519624\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:57:53","slug":"wembanyamas-mri-shows-no-ligament-damage-in-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519624\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama’s MRI shows no ligament damage in knee"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 The San Antonio Spurs say an MRI showed center Victor Wembanyama sustained no ligament damage in his injured left knee, and their All-Star center will not play Friday in Indiana.<\/p>\n

The Spurs said Thursday that Wembanyama\u2019s status is day-to-day. He did not travel with the team to face the NBA-worst Pacers (6-28), and instead will rehabilitate the injury in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama hyperextended his left knee with just under 11 minutes remaining in\u00a0San Antonio’s 134-132 victory over the New York Knicks<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He said he felt fine after the game and expected to play Friday against the Pacers, but said San Antonio’s medical staff could decide otherwise depending on tests.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a good thing it was just a hyperextension,\u201d Wembanyama said. \u201cIt should be minimal, whatever this thing is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wembanyama was injured while leaping to gather an offensive rebound over Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns with 10:32 left in a rematch of the NBA Cup final. Wembanyama lost possession when he landed. Replays showed there was no contact with a defender, but Wembanyama\u2019s left foot slid forward.<\/p>\n

He remained on the court while New York went on offense. Spurs forward Kelly Olynyk intentionally committed a foul so the Spurs could check on Wembanyama. Spurs guards Stephon Castle and De\u2019Aaron Fox helped him get up before he hobbled straight to the locker room unassisted.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama was heard yelling \u201cI\u2019ll be back!\u201d several times to the fans as he ran through the tunnel toward the locker room while emphatically throwing his hands down.<\/p>\n

He returned to San Antonio’s bench with 1:22 remaining in the game without a limp and watched as the Spurs rallied to beat the Knicks.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama is averaging 24.3 points and 11.7 rebounds for the Southwest Division-leading Spurs (24-9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 The San Antonio Spurs say an MRI showed center Victor Wembanyama sustained no ligament…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[1970,1977,2097,7,6,969,474,4075,4074,66,83,534,2098],"class_list":{"0":"post-519624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-sanantoniospurs","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-news","19":"tag-spurs","20":"tag-texas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115846624344238549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519624","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=519624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}