Spurs' Victor Wambanyama Ruled Out for Remainder of Season

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00:00Some huge news on the first full day after the all-star break out of San Antonio for a first-time all-star

00:08For the Spurs that would be Victor

00:11Wembenyama the generational talent having a generational season in his second campaign in the NBA is now out for the remainder of

00:19This year a blood clot in his shoulder will sideline Wemby for the remainder of

00:25This season as we said in the open you hope it is a one-off San Antonio feels as though that is the case

00:32But anytime you are dealing with blood clots

00:35Athletes or otherwise it can be a scary

00:38Incident the Spurs have decided at this moment to shut down Victor Wembenyama for the remainder of this season hoping a very long

00:47illustrious and successful NBA career awaits beginning once again next year

00:52Yeah, smart moves, I mean, what are we doing here? It's not life-and-death situation on the court

00:56It's life-and-death off the court here quality of life

00:59You settle them down you take his mind off it because I don't I've never been diagnosed and many people probably haven't either with a

01:04Blood clot, but it's got to be one of the more scary

01:06Diagnosis that you can have because at any moment can that thing actually pass through get to the heart get to the brain

01:12So thank goodness that sometimes these top-level athletes and rightfully so get world-class health care

01:17Oh, hey, you know what? I'm not feeling right. My show doesn't feel good as opposed to most everybody in their day-to-day life

01:22Hey, I got to go to work today

01:23You know, I can't afford to take off and go to a doctor

01:25Some people have the luxury like Web and Yama to say, you know what?

01:28Let me run through a battery of tests and thank goodness

01:30They absolutely caught that here because that would have been devastating certainly for the San Antonio Spurs

01:34But now you get a chance to say, okay, it's not a shame in things where we're in the number one seed

01:39We're heading towards the playoffs. We're gonna win a championship as I said before if there's any time to have a minor setback

01:45This is the time to do it played very well last year very well this year

01:48We're starting to earn his stripes in the NBA is one of the top level players

01:51Yeah, but it's good that we see this gets caught here. So by next year, hopefully he's back to 100% back on the court

01:58Rare and ready to go