Victor Wembanyama's second season has come to an end.
The sensation of 7 feet and 3 of San Antonio Spurs has been diagnosed with deep venous thrombosis in the right shoulder and is now performed during the year. Shams Charania de ESPN First reported the news, adding that the team believes this is an 'isolated condition'.
A venous thrombosis occurs when blood begins to coagulate in the deepest veins of the body. The problem can become very dangerous because those obstructions could loosen and end in the lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism.
The lesion of the former Draft selection number 1 occurs only a few days after the first appearance in the Wembanyama Star Game. The 21-year-old Frenchman was the NBA year of the year in 2023-24, as well as a totally defensive first-defensive team after leading the league in blocked shots.
Wembanyama's condition was diagnosed this week after she returned from the game of stars, spurs said. It is almost always treated with medications for the cry of blood, which generally prevents a player from participating in a contact sport such as basketball. In general, athletes involved with contact sports that avoid the use of such medications are recommended due to the greater possibility of bleeding.
The bad news for Wembanyama comes with the Spurs that fall from the persecution in the playoffs at the West Conference in 23-29. There are currently 3.5 games outside the game tournament.
According to the reports, the second season of the NBA of the center of the Spurs Victor Wembanyama has come to an end
“Averos,” wrote a fan in X. “He was going to have his time in the playoffs. It really stinks from the NBA.
“The blood clots are not jokes,” added another. “I hope you recover completely.
At least one fan looked on the positive side: 'I'm glad they could find it. Well Wemby people!
“I'm in shock,” said Miami striker Kevin Love, when he was informed about the news shortly after the Spurs announced Wembanyama's condition. 'Absolute shock'.
Such cases have affected the NBA players before, including the now retired member of the Chris Bosh Hall of Fame, whose career was reduced after blood clots diagnosed him.
Some athletes have returned, sometimes better than ever, after dealing with blood clots.
Serena Williams was diagnosed with the problem known as pulmonary embolism, a clot in the lung, in 2011, and was the dominant female tennis player in the world again when she returned.
The center of the Spurs, Victor Wembanyama, bounces the ball against Orlando Magic on February 8
Wembanyama was not only the unanimous rookie of the year last season, but is currently the favorite, according to Betmgm Sportsbook, to be a defensive player of the year this season.
“There goes my Wemby Dpoty bet,” said an egocentric fan in X.
It is almost certain that I was going to do the All-NBA team and had been threatening to get some MVP votes along the way.
All for a good reason.
Its average score is above. Rebounds per game, above. Shooting percentages. He has already taken 403 triples and blocked 176 shots this season: no player in the NBA history has finished a season with those numbers, and Wemby did it this year for the All-Star Break.
Is averaging 24.3 points, 11 rebounds, 3.8 blockages and 3.7 assists; The only other player who ended a season averaging everything that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was in 1975-76.
Spurs have gone through some things this season.
Gregg Popovich, the patriarch of the franchise and someone that Wembanyama calls the best leader he has met, had a stroke in November and trained only five games before he needed to be replaced by the assistant Mitch Johnson, who, for all the accounts, has done an admirable job.
The trip has been brutal, even for the standards of San Antonio: the Spurs went to New York for a few days during Christmas, spent a week in France for the NBA Paris Games, they were in Los Angeles when forest fires were devastating That city and are now dealing with Rodeo Road's annual trip that displaces them during much of February.
The veteran star of the Spurs, Chris Paul, says that the team has had opportunities, pointing out how 10 of the 29 defeats of San Antonio have been for five points or less.
“I think we can really build something after the break,” Paul said days before Wembanyama was discarded during the year.
Now, however, the Spurs seem to return to the NBA draft lottery without its biggest star.