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Michael C. WrightApr 7, 2026, 02:02 AM<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Joined ESPN in 2010 Multiple Authors<\/p>\n SAN ANTONIO — The Spurs<\/a> ruled out Victor Wembanyama<\/a> for the second half of Monday night’s 115-102 win<\/a> over the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> because of a left rib contusion.<\/p>\n Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said after the game that he had heard “nothing” yet about the severity of Wembanyama’s injury.<\/p>\n Wembanyama suffered the injury in a collision with 76ers forward Paul George<\/a> near the half-court line with 10:47 left in the second quarter. They collided when Wembanyama was thrown a pass as San Antonio started to advance the ball up the floor in transition.<\/p>\n Wembanyama subbed out after the play and headed to the locker room, before returning to the bench with 6:49 left in the first half. At 44.3 seconds before intermission, Wembanyama asked to be subbed out again and walked back to the locker room.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks 1 Related<\/p>\n He didn’t come out of the locker room with the rest of the team after halftime. Minutes later, the Spurs announced the 22-year-old big man would sit out the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n “I know he came back and he just didn’t finish,” Johnson said. “At halftime, I was told he wasn’t coming back. I haven’t heard anything else up to this point. I think it would be a positive that he felt like he could come back, and he played the last four or five minutes of the half. So, that’s a positive from my perspective.”<\/p>\n Wembanyama played 15 minutes, 40 seconds, which will count toward eligibility for postseason awards, as players are granted two exceptions to the requirement of playing 20 minutes in a game as long as they play at least 15 minutes. The third-year veteran finished with 17 points, five rebounds and three blocks.<\/p>\n The favorite to win NBA Defensive Player of the Year and a contender for MVP, Wembanyama needs to play at least 20 minutes in one of San Antonio’s remaining three games to maintain eligibility for postseason awards.<\/p>\n The Frenchman was coming off a string of three straight games in which he scored at least 30 points and tallied at least 15 rebounds with three blocks. That tied for the second-longest such streak since blocks were tracked in 1973-74, behind Shaquille O’Neal’s four-game run in 1999, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n Wembanyama entered Monday’s game leading the Spurs in scoring at 24.9 points per game, rebounds (11.6) and blocks (3.1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael C. WrightApr 7, 2026, 02:02 AM CloseJoined ESPN in 2010 Previously covered Bears for ESPN.com Played college…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,6,678,207,3817],"class_list":{"0":"post-702853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","13":"tag-philadelphia76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116362285699888306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702853","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=702853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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