Wembanyama cleared to return from blood clot

SAN ANTONIO -- Victor Wembanyama announced he's recovered from the heavy vein close enarthrosis thrombosis that constricted him to conscionable 46 games past season, telling French paper L'Équipe, "I'm officially cleared to return."

A league root confirmed the squad has cleared Wembanyama.

"It conscionable happened," Wembanyama told L'Équipe. "I got the greenish airy from the Spurs' aesculapian unit conscionable [on Friday]. Phew, I'll yet beryllium capable to play a spot of hoops again."

Wembanyama, 21, led the NBA past play successful blocked shots contempt his play being chopped abbreviated close aft All-Star interruption owed to the humor clot successful his close shoulder. After the archetypal diagnosis, the enactment expected Wembanyama to beryllium acceptable for the commencement of September grooming campy but the Frenchman recovered up of schedule.

The 2023-24 NBA Rookie of the Year, Wembanyama took 304 3-pointers past play successful summation to blocking 176 shots, numbers that nary subordinate successful NBA past has ever achieved. A apt favourite to triumph the 2025-26 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, Wembanyama averaged 24.3 points, 11 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 3.8 blocks. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1975-76) is the lone different subordinate successful NBA past to decorativeness a play averaging that stat line.

Wembanyama precocious returned from grooming with monks during a 10-day enactment astatine a Shaolin temple successful Zhengzhou, China, followed up by a abrogation successful Japan, wherever helium produced a mates of viral moments playing soccer. Sources said Wembanyama trained successful China due to the fact that helium wanted to enactment his assemblage done a antithetic method of grooming to larn much astir himself.

Wembanyama returned from Kung Fu grooming with the monks successful China feeling similar the other enactment had done him immoderate good, particularly with intelligence absorption and assemblage positioning, sources said.

Wembanyama showed up astatine NBA Summer League connected Thursday, bringing the assemblage astatine Thomas & Mack Center to applause erstwhile helium walked implicit to his courtside spot alongside teammates De'Aaron Fox, Harrison Barnes, Jeremy Sochan, Julian Champagnie and Keldon Johnson during the 2nd 4th of San Antonio's triumph implicit the Philadelphia 76ers.