2023-12-02 06:52:34
Victor Wembanyama, however, wanted to be reassuring on Thursday after his team’s defeat against Atlanta (137-135), indicating that “the hip and the body are fine”. Finally 24 hours later, that is to say on the night of Friday to Saturday, the 19-year-old prodigy was not on the Pelicans floor to defend the chances of the Spurs, launched on a difficult slope with 13 defeats in a row.
Indeed, the Texan franchise announced a few hours before the match that the Frenchman would be out because of the same hip, he who had taken part in his team’s first 18 matches since the start of the season on October 25. The day before, Gregg Popovich had also said he wanted to “protect” his player, as he has indicated since the Frenchman’s debut on American courts.
Without him, the Spurs failed to stop their series of setbacks by suffering a fourteenth defeat in a row on the floor of New Orleans (121-106). Despite a fairly even distribution of points between the starting 5 and the bench (more than ten points for eight players including 14 for Blake Wesley), the Spurs remained in the game until halfway through the third quarter before losing contact and to lose thanks in particular to the 24 points and 12 rebounds of Jonas Valanciunas.
This new defeat brings Gregg Popovich’s team a little closer to its sad record of 16 losses in a row last season. A series that the Spurs hope not to extend on Wednesday against Minnesota where Wembanyama, if he is restored, could already find Rudy Gobert.
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