Spurs: Wembanyama receives high to return after blood clot

Because of the blood clot on his shoulder, Victor Wembanyama could barely play 46 games with the Spurs in the previous campaign.

San Antonio – Victor Wembanyama announced that it has recovered from the Deep vein thrombosis On the right shoulder that limited it to only 46 games last season. He declared the French newspaper L’Equipe: “I have an official authorization to return.”

A league source confirmed that San Antonio Spurs They discharged Wembanyama.

“It just happened,” he said Wembanyama To l’equipe. “I received green light from the medical body of the Spurs fair (Friday). UF! I can finally play basketball a bit. “

Wembanyama21 years old, led the NBA Last season in caps, despite the fact that his campaign was interrupted just after the spare of the stars game due to a blood clot on the right shoulder. After the original diagnosis, the organization hoped that Wembanyama He was ready for the start of the training camp in September, but the Frenchman recovered earlier than expected.

He NBA year of the year 2023-24, Wembanyamahe scored 304 triples last season, in addition to blocking 176 shots, figures that no other player in the history of the NBA He has ever achieved. Possible favorite to win the award for NBA 2025-26 year defensive player, Wembanyama He averaged 24.3 points, 11 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 3.8 plugs. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1975-76) is the only other player in the history of the NBA in finishing a season averaging that statistic.

Wembanyama He recently returned to train with monks during a 10 -day stay in a Shaolin temple in Zhengzhou, China, followed by a vacation in Japan, where he starred in a couple of viral moments playing football. Sources reported that Wembanyama He trained in China because he wanted to submit his body to a different training method to learn more about himself.

Wembanyama He returned from his Kung Fu training with the monks in China feeling that extra work had done well, especially in terms of concentration and body posture, the sources reported.

Wembanyama was presented at the NBA Summer League On Thursday, causing the public applause at Thomas & Mack Center as they approach his seat with his teammates De’aaron Fox, Harrison Barnes, Jeremy Sochan, Julian Champagnie and Keldon Johnson during the second quarter of the victory of the victory of San Antonior about the philadelphia 76ers.