He is fine. As of July 16, 2026, the San Antonio Spurs list no designation of any kind against their center. The heaviest entry in the Victor Wembanyama injury file, a blood clot found in his right shoulder, now sits seventeen months behind him. What follows is the whole record, the years in France included, and what each diagnosis actually meant. For the full picture, read Is Luka Playing Tonight.
| Season | Regular-season games | Missed | What the record shows |
| 2023-24 | 71 of 82 | 11 | Rookie of the Year. No single long absence reported. |
| 2024-25 | 46 of 82 | 36 | Shut down on February 20, 2025, with deep vein thrombosis in the right shoulder. |
| 2025-26 | 64 of 82 | 18 | Defensive Player of the Year. Right ankle soreness reported in March 2026. |
| Three-year total | 181 of 246 | 65 | 73.6% availability, almost all of the loss from one medical event. |
Key takeaways
- A blood clot, not a joint or a bone, is the defining event of his medical file. It cost him 36 regular-season games and eight months.
- He has missed 65 of a possible 246 regular-season games in three years.
- Everything since has been ordinary basketball attrition: ankle soreness, a one-game concussion, no structural damage anywhere.
- No health concern appears anywhere in the July 2026 reporting, and the Spurs have just committed $252 million to him.
Victor Wembanyama Injury: Where his health stands right now
Nothing is listed. The Spurs have reported no injury, no procedure, and no restriction since their season ended in June. For a player who spent a whole spring in the playoffs, that silence is the cleanest signal available.
A contract says more than any statement would. On July 10, 2026, he signed a $252 million rookie maximum extension. Reporting put the figure at roughly $51 million below the richest deal he could have taken, a discount he chose so San Antonio keeps room to build around him. Teams do not hand over that kind of money to a player they privately worry about.
His summer has been loud in the way healthy summers are. Post-move sessions with Hakeem Olajuwon have filled the calendar. Video of him playing pickup soccer in a Texas park went around without a word of concern from the organization. If you follow the rest of the league, our wider sport coverage tracks the same stories week to week.
The blood clot that ended his second season
February 20, 2025 is the date that matters. San Antonio shut him down for the remainder of the year after doctors found deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder. He had played 46 games and was averaging 24.3 points, 11.0 rebounds, 3.7 assists and a league-leading 3.8 blocks. Then the season simply stopped.
What deep vein thrombosis actually means
A deep vein thrombosis is a clot in one of the deeper veins, usually in a leg, sometimes in an arm or a shoulder, as his was. The danger is not the clot sitting still. It is the fragment that breaks loose and lodges in the lungs, a pulmonary embolism, which is why doctors treat a clot as urgent rather than something to manage around.
Treatment means anticoagulation, blood thinners that stop the clot from growing while the body breaks it down. Those drugs are also why a clot is so awkward for a basketball player. Thinned blood turns a routine collision into a bleeding risk. Almost nobody plays a contact sport while still taking them, so the calendar belongs to the medicine, not the athlete.
Why the comeback took eight months
Doctors cleared him in time for opening night, and he put 40 points on Dallas on October 22, 2025. Diagnosis to competitive basketball: a little over eight months.
That is slow against the published benchmark. A 2017 study in the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine tracked 55 blood clot cases across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL. It found an 85.4% return-to-play rate, and clots in an arm or shoulder cost an average of 4.3 months. Roughly double that average is not a warning sign. It reads as a young franchise player getting the slowest, most cautious version of a protocol, with a whole offseason available to spend on it.
What has kept him out since
The 2025-26 season looked like a normal year for a center carrying a heavy load. He appeared in 64 of 82 games, won Defensive Player of the Year, and dragged a 62-20 Spurs team to the second seed in the West. In March 2026, he was listed as questionable with right ankle soreness and played anyway, scoring 34 against Phoenix.
San Antonio never itemized the other absences, and this page will not invent labels for them. Where nobody has put a name to a missed game, it stays blank, which is part of how Gamerlume checks its reporting.
Postseason play produced the only other diagnosis worth logging. In Game 2 against Portland on April 21, 2026, he tripped, hit his head and was later diagnosed with a concussion. He sat out Game 3, cleared the protocol and returned for Game 4 with 27 points, 11 rebounds and 7 blocks. San Antonio beat Minnesota and then Oklahoma City before losing the Finals to New York in five games.
Four injuries in France before the draft
Most injury pages start at the draft. That skips the four years where a pattern would have shown up first.
- December 12, 2020, fibula stress fracture. A bone-overload injury in a teenager who had just grown several inches. Roughly eight weeks out.
- November 10, 2021, fractured finger. Two to three weeks. Contact damage, no lasting effect.
- December 20, 2021, right shoulder bone bruise. Four to six weeks. He returned on February 11, 2022.
- June 3, 2022, psoas strain. A deep hip flexor injury in the Pro A semifinal that ended his season and cost him a place on the EuroBasket 2022 preliminary roster.
Read together, that is an unremarkable list for someone growing toward 7-foot-4. Nothing recurs. No joint shows up twice, no soft-tissue problem came back, and not one entry involves a knee, a back or an Achilles. Anyone working through athlete profiles and career breakdowns will find far uglier teenage records on far smaller players.
The durability question for 2026-27
Here is the part nobody enjoys writing down. Clots come back. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to 900,000 Americans are affected by venous thromboembolism each year. Its published blood clot statistics also show that about one third of them have a recurrence within 10 years.
That number describes a whole population, not a monitored professional athlete whose clot had a traceable cause and who has a medical staff watching him daily. His personal risk is lower. It still belongs in an honest profile, because it is the only item in the whole Victor Wembanyama injury record that does not simply heal and disappear.
The rest of the evidence points the other way, and it is not close. Three seasons, 181 of 246 regular-season games, and an availability rate held down by a single event rather than by a body that keeps failing. Then look at his 2025-26 workload: 1,866 minutes across 64 games, a run to the Finals, and a playoff-leading 3.5 blocks per game. No stronger argument exists that the shoulder is a closed chapter.
So is he expected to be ready for 2026-27? Yes. Nothing public suggests otherwise, and the sensible forecast is an ordinary star-center season with load management built in. Somewhere in the high 60s to low 70s in games played, a handful of rest nights, and no limitation tied to the clot. He is the cover athlete for NBA 2K27 as well, which our gaming release news follows alongside the basketball.
FAQ
No. Nothing is listed against him in July 2026, and no report from the offseason mentions a health issue.
Serious enough to end a season immediately. Doctors treat a deep vein thrombosis urgently because of what happens if part of it reaches the lungs. The blood thinners that follow also rule out contact sport while the course runs.
Sixty-five regular-season games across three years, out of a possible 246. One playoff game is on the list too: Game 3 against Portland in April 2026, after a concussion.
Opening night of the following season, October 22, 2025, roughly eight months after the diagnosis. That night he scored 40 points against Dallas.
There is no public evidence that it does. He played 64 games and a full playoff run afterward, won Defensive Player of the Year, and signed a nine-figure extension in July 2026. Barring something new, he should be ready to open 2026-27 on schedule.
