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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 01: Victor Wembanyama #1 of the San Antonio Spurs warms up before their game against the Golden State Warriors at Chase Center on April 01, 2026 in San Francisco, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The San Antonio Spurs<\/a> and their fans can breathe a little easier. After a scary moment during Monday night\u2019s win over the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>, early signs point to good news for star center Victor Wembanyama.<\/p>\n Initial tests have come back encouraging, and the Spurs are staying hopeful heading into the final stretch of the regular season.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m told the Spurs are not anticipating this to be a major injury. He underwent x-rays\u00a0last night on that rib and x-rays for Victor Wameniyama returned negative, I\u2019m told, and so\u00a0he will be undergoing more testing later today, but there is hope and optimism that those tests\u00a0will confirm what they felt last night was that the anticipation is nothing major,\u201d as per Shams Charania of ESPN<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Shams on Wemby:<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m told the Spurs are not anticipating this to be a major injury. X Rays returned negative\u201d <\/p>\n How the Injury Happened<\/p>\n The injury occurred in the first half against the 76ers. Paul George accidentally caught Wembanyama with an elbow to the left ribs while trying to deflect a pass. Wembanyama went down immediately and left the court holding his side. He briefly returned but asked to come out before halftime and was ruled out for the second half with a left rib contusion.<\/p>\n Despite the scare, the Spurs still won 115-102 to reach 60 wins on the season. With three regular-season games remaining, Wembanyama needs to play at least one to stay eligible for MVP and Defensive Player of the Year awards.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tJayesh Pagar<\/a> Jayesh Pagar is a writer at Heavy Sports, covering the New York Knicks and other NBA teams. He brings four years of experience across digital sports media, including NBA, WNBA, college basketball, and college football. He covered as the Knicks beat writer for ONSI and has written for PFSN, Sporting News, and ClutchPoints. More about Jayesh Pagar<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Spurs\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 01: Victor Wembanyama #1 of the San Antonio Spurs warms up before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703923,"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-703922","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703922","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=703922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}