{"id":72350,"date":"2026-04-21T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/spurs-victor-wembanyama-in-concussion-protocol-after-nasty-face-first-fall\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:55:10","slug":"spurs-victor-wembanyama-in-concussion-protocol-after-nasty-face-first-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/spurs-victor-wembanyama-in-concussion-protocol-after-nasty-face-first-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs\u2019 Victor Wembanyama in concussion protocol after nasty face-first fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Wembanyama exits after hard fall in Game 2<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Spurs star enters NBA concussion protocol<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>San Antonio face major playoff injury scare<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama tumbled face-first to the court in the second quarter of Tuesday night\u2019s playoff game against Portland and left the game to be examined for a possible concussion.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs said Wembanyama was in the concussion protocol and would not return. Any extended absence for Wembanyama would be a massive blow to San Antonio, which finished with the league\u2019s second-best record behind the versatile 7ft 4in center from France.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/21\/victor-wembanyama-injury-update-concussion-spurs-blazers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wembanyama exits after hard fall in Game 2 Spurs star enters NBA concussion protocol San Antonio face major playoff injury scare San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama tumbled face-first to the court in the second quarter of Tuesday night\u2019s playoff game against Portland and left the game to be examined for a possible concussion. The &#8230; <a title=\"Spurs\u2019 Victor Wembanyama in concussion protocol after nasty face-first fall\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/spurs-victor-wembanyama-in-concussion-protocol-after-nasty-face-first-fall\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Spurs\u2019 Victor Wembanyama in concussion protocol after nasty face-first fall\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}