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Report: Victor Wembanyama Cleared To Play Game 4
April 26, 2026
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Victor Wembanyama, who sustained a concussion in Tuesday night's Game 2 between his San Antonio Spurs and the Portland Trailblazers, has been cleared by medical personnel to return to action in Sunday's Game 4, according to a report by ESPN's Shams Charania and Malika Andrews. https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/2048472286395551853 As Defector's Patrick Redford wrote on Wednesday, concussions are notoriously tricky injuries, with notoriously unpredictable recovery processes and timetables.
These are realities which have always cast a little bit of suspicion on the various sports leagues' ballyhooed brain-injury protocols: Somehow, superstar athletes seem to pretty much always complete their concussion recoveries in time to appear in their team's next do-or-die game, if not its next do-or-die return from a TV timeout. Stipulating that all brains are different, and that I know nothing more about the condition of Wembanyama's than anybody else who has never met him and only saw the event of his concussion on TV, this recovery seems particularly dubious to me. The dude's head bounced on the hardwood, after falling from, well, Victor Wembanyama's height.
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