San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is making a push for the league’s MVP award down the stretch of the regular season, as he’s currently second behind Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.<\/p>\n
To be eligible to win the leaue’s MVP, Wemby has to play in 65 games, meaning he can only miss a couple more this season. So, even with the Spurs playing the second night of a back-to-back on Thursday, bettors and fans should expect Wembanyama to be in the lineup against the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n
Oddsmakers at DraftKings<\/a> seem to think that Wemby will suit up after dominating the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday. San Antonio is a 3.5-point favorite (on the road) against Kawhi Leonard and company. <\/p>\n On Wednesday night, Wembanyama scored 41 points and grabbed 18 rebounds while shooting 16-for-22 from beyond the arc. He only played 29 minutes in the Spurs’ 14-point win, so that bodes well for his chances of playing on the second night of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n Wemby has not missed a game since March 12, and he’s only missed three games since mid-December when he returned from a calf injury. <\/p>\n Every game matters to the Spurs down the stretch of the regular season, as they’re just two games out of the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference. Wembanyama has been a huge part of the Spurs’ impressive season, averaging 24.7 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 1.0 steal and an NBA-best 3.1 blocks per game. He’s shooting 50.9 percent from the field and 35.0 percent from 3-point range. <\/p>\n The Spurs have yet to release an injury report on Thursday, so it is possible that Wemby could end up with a designation. This story will be updated once the Spurs release their report on April 2. <\/p>\n Odds refresh periodically and are subject to change.<\/p>\n If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-GAMBLER.<\/p>\n Claim the latest\u00a0DraftKings promo code<\/a>\u00a0offer today. Sign up and win your first $5 bet to get\u00a0$200 in bonus bets instantly.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is making a push for the league’s MVP award down the stretch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,6,969,474,4075,4074,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-694008","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-nba","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-sanantoniospurs","14":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116335580569001545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694008","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=694008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}