No Victor Wembanyama this night against the Mavericks. However, the Frenchman was in good shape when he started the warm-up, but he was injured! A stupid injury since he simply stepped on the foot of a “ball boy” who remained under the circle… The staff strapped the Spurs pivot, but Gregg Popovich preferred to take it easy.
“If it was a playoff game, I probably would have played him,” said Gregg Popovichthe Spurs coach, after the defeat against Dallas. “He's not happy, but I prefer to be careful because it's the same ankle that forced him to play less. But it’s just a strange incident before a match…”.
Coach Pop' had never seen that!
Absent against the Bucks to spare this ankle, “Wemby” was then transparent against the Bulls. This Saturday evening, the staff had planned that his playing time would be limited again. In the end he didn't play at all.
“In my entire career, I have never seen anyone get injured like that…” concludes Popovich. We remember that Kevin Durant was recently injured while warming up on a bad reception. But it wasn’t by falling on the foot of a “ball boy”.
