{"id":704569,"date":"2026-04-08T04:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704569\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:40:19","slug":"victor-wembanyama-has-injury-designation-before-blazers-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704569\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama has injury designation before Blazers clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> are scheduled to face the Portland Trail Blazers at home on Wednesday at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, but there&#8217;s a chance that <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs\/whats-next-spurs-victor-wembanyama-suffering-rib-injury-vs-76ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they will not have the services of star big man Victor Wembanyama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former No. 1 overall NBA draft pick was hurt in Monday&#8217;s showdown against the Philadelphia 76ers and is now <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2041636471887872061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">listed as doubtful<\/a> for the Blazers game, via Shams Charania of The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpurs star Victor Wembanyama is listed doubtful to play in Wednesday&#8217;s game against Portland due to a rib contusion but there&#8217;s confidence he will play at least one of the team&#8217;s final three regular-season games,\u201d Charania shared via a social media post on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama left the Philadelphia game in the first half and did not return. He scored 17 points on 7-for-11 shooting from the field with five rebounds, three blocks and an assist in 16 minutes before his night ended, though San Antonio was still able to come away with a 115-102 win.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs have already locked up the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference, so they can afford Wembanyama to be absent the rest of the way through the 2025-26 NBA regular season.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs\/spurs-news-victor-wembanyama-become-eligible-for-awards-rib-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wembanyama needs to play at least 20 minutes<\/a> in one of San Antonio&#8217;s remaining three outings to be eligible for the major NBA awards, per the 65-game rule. Wembanyama has played in 63 regular-season games but is 64th overall this season, as he also played in the NBA Cup championship game against the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama&#8217;s next chance to suit up will be on Friday against the Dallas Mavericks, before San Antonio&#8217;s regular-season finale on Sunday against the Denver Nuggets. Both games will be held at Frost Bank Center.<\/p>\n<p>The San Antonio Spurs are scheduled to face the Portland Trail Blazers at home on Wednesday at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, but there&#8217;s a chance that they will not have the services of star big man Victor Wembanyama.  The former No.  1 overall NBA draft pick was hurt in Monday&#8217;s showdown against the Philadelphia 76ers and is now listed as doubtful for the Blazers game, via Shams Charania of The Athletic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Antonio Spurs are scheduled to face the Portland Trail Blazers at home on Wednesday at Frost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,6,14502,969,474,4075,4074,534,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-704569","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-nba-injury","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sanantoniospurs","15":"tag-spurs","16":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116367250155466773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704569","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=704569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}