🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Victor Wembanyama CLEARED to return to basketball activities | NBA Today

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Victor Wembanyama CLEARED to return to basketball activities | NBA Today

We do have some breaking news out of San Antonio. Victor Wanyama says he’s officially been cleared to return after dealing with a blood clot in his shoulder. Here’s what he told reporters at Leip over the weekend. Quote, I’m officially cleared to return. It just happened. I got the green light from the Spurs medical staff just a few hours ago. Phew. I’m finally able to play a bit of basketball together. All right. Everyone has said that he could be the best player in the world at some point. Now that’s health. His health is back in order here and that scare is behind him. Is he finally going to be able to reach that designation this season? I mean, if he gets in the conversation this season, that is a tremendous development for the Spurs. And look, he has shown he’s the best defensive player in the world right now. Uh offensively, he’s still very much a work in progress, a a developing prospect. They’ve added some pieces around him. They’ve got a really impressive young core for Wimi and for the Spurs. He doesn’t have to make a leap to the top. They’re not going to make a leap to the top this year. You want them to get in the thick of things in the Western Conference to be competitive to compete for a playoff spot. So Mark, we saw Dylan Harper in that highlight. He looked really good in that game. They’ve got Dylan Harper. They’ve got the reigning rookie of the year, Stefan Castle. De’Arren Fox is there. They do have some pieces kind of being pushed. Yeah, look, his roster is great. There’s there’s no wasted roster spots. I I expect them to take a leap. He has so much talent around him now that he doesn’t have to put the entire franchise on his back. Yes, he is a star of this team, but like if Vassel’s coming off the bench, Barnes coming off the bench, like you got two rookies that I expect to make an immediate impact on this team, I’m I’m expecting big things from the Spurs. Yeah. And look, they always do a really good job of development, I would say, as well when when you think about it, like look at historically, they’re one of the teams that has done a fantastic job mining the G-League over their history. You know, the Austin Spurs, you always have guys called being called up. They got this guy Jones Garcia who I saw balling out at summer league. That’s a guy, even though the back court is crowded. Could be someone you have there. All right, UD, what do you think? I mean, I love the roster. I love And also, let’s not forget about bringing Lucette over from uh Boston and what he was able to do in the playoffs for those guys. So, that’s another guy who has championship, you know, experience and, you know, has that expectation, knows what it’s like to be in a locker room like that. So, I love the pieces and everything they put around him. I love what Victor is able to do offensively and of course what he’s able to do defensively. I would love for him to cut those threes down. I know he shoots around eight or nine threes. I’m a little old school. I want him to get in there and dominate a little bit more with his size, but you know, sky’s is the limit for Victor Winyama. Um, I just think this team needs a couple more mango seasons. You know, you out there in the West and everybody is continuously getting better and um, you know, it’s it’s a lot of ground for those guys to make up from where they were last year even though they added those pieces as the West continues to get better. Well, and I think there’s such a great unknown to this roster. I think just because they traded for Darren Fox in February and we really saw a limited body of work with him and and Victor Webeyama here. And I think there is a newness and the only way is to get better when you’re in the Western Conference if you don’t improve your roster. And I think San Antonio did that in the draft suddenly with their two picks led by Dylan Harper and then Luke Cornette and then they get Kelly Kelly Olen in a trade. They did get better, but is that good enough to get into that top six of the Western Conference? And I think there’s the great unknown for that. Yeah. [Music] [Applause] Jimmy with the heat. I’m on fire on the

Bobby Marks, Tim MacMahon, Marc J. Spears and Udonis Haslem join Jorge Sedano on NBA Today to react to the breaking news of Victor Wembanyama being cleared to return to basketball activities after being shut down last season after being diagnosed with a blood clot in his right shoulder.

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