A deep venous thrombosis has been diagnosed in the player. This will prevent him from playing the next games of the season.
Victor Wembanyama has a deep venous thrombosis on the right shoulder, which was discovered on the return from the All-Star Game on Monday, February 17, according to a press release from the San Antonio Spurs club. Also called phlebitis, it is a blood clot that has formed in a vein and can have serious consequences, such as a infarction or a stroke. Wearing a restraint is necessary, the affected person must take drug treatment and avoid the practice of a sport.
As his club said, Victor Wembanyama will miss the full regular season because of this disease. Spurs are still “optimistic about the full recovery of Wembanyama by the start of next season,” we learned on the American sports television channel ESPN.
What consequences for the team?
Spurs will therefore have to do without one of their best elements at the worst time of the season. San Antonio will have to redouble their efforts to get a place in the playoffs. They still lack five victories to get their place in play-in, the stage before the playoffs.