9:54pm: Wembanyama has a concussion and will undergo further testing on Wednesday, Charania tweets. Wembanyama must now have at least 48 hours of inactivity and recovery, then hit several benchmarks while being symptom-free before he is cleared to play.
8:18pm: Spurs star center Victor Wembanyama was ruled out for the remainder of Game 2 of his team’s game against the Trail Blazers on Tuesday after he entered concussion protocol. The team made the announcement during the second quarter, ESPN’s Shams Charania tweets.
Wembanyama was injured when he stumbled while driving toward the basket and banged his chin against the floor (Twitter video link).
The big man had five points, four rebounds, a block and an assist in 12 minutes before suffering the injury. He collected his Defensive Player of the Year award prior to the game but the mood among the team and home crowd changed dramatically after Wembanyama fell in the lane and headed to the locker room.
With Wembanyama now in concussion protocol, the No. 2 seeded Spurs suddenly look much more vulnerable. They won Game 1 111-98 behind his 36-point eruption.
Wembanyama will have to meet certain benchmarks and exhibit that he’s symptom-free before clearing the concussion protocol. Until he can return, Luke Kornet will play a more prominent role and another veteran big man, Kelly Olynyk, could also see his minutes spike.
If only he had a chin like Bruce Campbell he’d be just fine. Hope he recovers quickly.
Ability to yield a boomstick comes with the chin.
Him being out is massive Blazers have loads of good defensive guards/wings (Holiday, Thybulle, Grant, etc) load them up on Fox and Castle and the Spurs will struggle with Wemby
That would be a massive upset should he miss 2/3 games
Bro with or without wemby the blazers are not winning this series. Can’t over react to one game. Series have adjustments until game 5 than it’s all on the players. So stealing a game does not mean alits over
Spurs went 3-0 against blazers without Wemby in the regular season. They’ll be fine.
Worst timeline ever honestly
Get well Wemby … 🙏
Kornet had a good game. But Blazers just smelled blood lols. Scoot finally woke up.
What’s wrong with Grant ?? Don’t look right.
That one had him out like a light for a few moments…
Is gonna be a shock if he is in the next game…
Will make it a series at least as the Blazers had to play smalls on him due to their bigs being too slow…
You flunked punctuation school.
And???
Had a Freudian moment, reading the headline.
Was wondering about possible extracurricular stuff going on during a game of basketball.
The next game is Friday – got better soon Wemby!