{"id":704133,"date":"2026-04-07T22:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:44:18","slug":"victor-wembanyama-avoids-major-injury-doubtful-vs-blazers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704133\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama avoids major injury; doubtful vs. Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs<\/a> star Victor Wembanyama<\/a> is listed as doubtful for Wednesday’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> because of a rib contusion, but there’s confidence he will play again in the regular season to meet the requirements for postseason awards, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama suffered the injury in a collision with 76ers forward Paul George<\/a> in the second quarter of Monday’s win over Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

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After undergoing testing on Tuesday, Wembanyama was determined to have avoided significant injury and is considered day-to-day. Because he played just 15 minutes, 40 seconds in Monday’s game, it will not count toward eligibility for postseason awards.<\/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

After hosting the Trail Blazers on Wednesday, the Spurs play the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> and Denver Nuggets<\/a> at home on Friday and Sunday to close out the season.<\/p>\n

San Antonio (60-19) still has an outside shot to catch the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> (62-16) for the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference, but would need to OKC to lose at least three of its final four games for a chance to move up.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Michael C. Wright contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is listed as doubtful for Wednesday’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-704133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-portland","12":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","13":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","14":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116365851670802227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704133","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=704133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}