In a statement published on Thursday, the San Antonio Spurs explained that they expected to be deprived of the French star until the end of the season.

He will probably have played his last match of the season during the All-Star Game. Injured in the shoulder, Victor Wembanyama should miss the whole end of the NBA season announced the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday, February 20. “Victor Wembanyama suffers from a deep venous thrombosis on the right shoulder, which was discovered on his return from the All-Star Game in San Francisco. He should miss the entire rest of the 2024-2025 season”announced his deductible in a press release.

“Spurs think this is an isolated problem”completes the ESPN journalist, Shams Charania, renowned for his reliability. “A deep venous thrombosis is a clot that develops in one of the main veins of the body, generally in the lower end”, specifies Jeff Stotts, expert in injuries in NBA, on his x account. He specifies that another NBA player, Brandon Ingram, had also developed this type of shoulder injury, missing the last 19 games of the 2018-19 season, before returning from the start of the following season.

This news is a big stop for the interior of 21 years, which hitherto had a great campaign for its second season in the NBA, with 24.3 points, 11 rebounds and 3.8 against average. He was rewarded for his first selection at All-Star last weekend. For the Texan team, this should sound the death knell for sports ambitions, while the Spurs have been fighting since the start of the season to win their ticket for the playoffs. Thursday, they went back down to 12th place in the Western Conference, with a balance sheet of 23 victories for 29 defeats.