{"id":705633,"date":"2026-04-08T17:46:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/705633\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:46:56","slug":"spurs-rule-out-victor-wembanyama-and-stephon-castle-for-their-game-against-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/705633\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs rule out Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle for their game against Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle will miss the Spurs&#8217; game Wednesday night against the Portland Trail Blazers, San Antonio announced.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama suffered a left rib contusion during the first half of Monday\u2019s 115-102 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n<p>Castle, who had 17 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds in that game, had been listed as doubtful Wednesday with right knee soreness following the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama had 17 points, five rebounds and three blocks in 15:40 against the Sixers. It constituted an official game per the NBA guidelines, which allow two exceptions of 15 to 19:59 minutes to count toward the league-required minimum of 65 games played for award eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama, an MVP, defensive player of the year and All-NBA hopeful, still needs one more game (and at least 20 minutes played) to be eligible for those individual awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle will miss the Spurs&#8217; game Wednesday night against the Portland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,6,678,207,3817,471,474,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-705633","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","14":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","15":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","16":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116370344680224019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705633","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=705633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}