Towering superstar Victor Wembanyama toppled onto his face Tuesday night — timberrr!!! — and the NBA playoff scenario immediately became as scrambled as the San Antonio Spurs’ 7-foot-4 center’s thoughts must have been moments after he suffered a concussion. Without Wembanyama for nearly three quarters, the Spurs fell to the underdog Portland Trail Blazers, 106-103,…
San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama left Game 2 of their first-round series against the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday and entered the league’s concussion protocol. With 8:57 remaining in the second quarter, Wembanyama lost his footing and took an extremely hard fall after Blazers guard Jrue Holiday fouled him. Wembanyama’s face hit the floor…
We’ve already witnessed the marvel that is the NBA playoff product compared to its often lackluster regular-season counterpart. We’re seeing every possession contested, rebounds fought for, players fighting through physical ailments and other competition-driven attributes to come to life when the pros play as if the outcome means something. Of course, that’s because it does….
Keytron Jordan, CBS Sports The 2026 NBA playoff bracket is set. All 20 seeds are locked in, and the postseason gets started on Tuesday with Hornets-Heat and Suns-Blazers in the Play-In Tournament. In the East, the Raptors clinched the final top-six seed and a guaranteed playoff berth on Sunday, and the Nuggets closed out the…
Victor Wembanyama is dangerously close to being ineligible for end-of-season awards. The San Antonio Spurs superstar exited Monday night’s win against the Philadelphia 76ers with what the team called a left rib contusion. It happened with 10:47 left in the second quarter when he collided with Paul George, who attempted a steal when Wembanyama had…
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Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama moves to 2nd in NBA MVP ladder, closes in on SGA originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. A lot of people have narrowed down the NBA MVP discussions to Oklahoma City Thunder‘s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Denver Nuggets‘ Nikola Jokic. These two…
