Hahaha. You made me remember that bad statue. They should really make some changes to that. I don't know though if it's possible.

Yeah, this is great news. It's not just Kobe Bryant.
Trump announces Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson statues for National Garden of American Heroes
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trump-announces-kobe-bryant-muhammad-ali-jackie-robinson-statues-national-garden-american-heroes

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I just finished reading about this. What a sad year for the Spurs.
https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/victor-wembanyama-instant-reaction-what-to-make-of-the-all-stars-shocking-injury-situation-195402280.html
Blood clot. That's how it is defined in Google.
So it's not a foot injury and the medical staff of the Spurs are not too worried about it. He will be back, that's for sure. But not this season.

The timing is just too bad for Spurs since they already have Fox which is a great addition to boost Spurs winning percentage in able to compete on the playoffs.

Wemby is still young though compared when Chris Bosh retired due to his injury. I’m still hopeful that he will fully recover to help Spurs take back their top spot

It is scary that Chris Bosh had to retire from blood clots (a few other NBA players have as well) and Wemby is now experiencing it.  Honestly though, Chris Bosh's blood clots were before the covid vaccine, so for me that seems like it was probably more serious.  There have been plenty of people studying how to reverse vaccine injury these last few years, and there are actually several treatments.  Since I'm operating under the assumption that Wemby is suffering from a vaccine injury, I imagine he'll be back to 100% by next year.  I wish him a speedy recovery.  The Spurs organization is resting on his shoulders...

He's diagnosed with DVT or Deep vein thrombosis. If part of a clot breaks off and travels into his lungs and heart he could die. He is gonna have to undergo a procedure possibly and have to rest for awhile.

If it were just a regular shoulder injury he could probably tape it up and be good to go in a few days, but the issue he has can be very serious so I don't blame them for ruling him out for the rest of the season to get it fixed.

Ok, so it really looks very serious injury and that's why it's not just a season ending, but it could be career ending for him if it's not being diagnosed properly. So it's good that the medical team of the Spurs were able to catch it early.

And when you think that they are going to lose against the Suns with their big 3 of KD, Beal and Booker playing, the Spurs were able to grab a big win against them as they still have Fox, least we forget. But still though, long term, they are going to missed the services of the big man, but they can't do anything about it.

I heard something from Brian Windhorst with regards to this injury, and he said that most of the blood clots from athletes are appearing above their hand, and as soon as a blood clot appears, it must be treated immediately, and it's almost an automatic that you need to sit down for 6 months at least and will not play any contact sports. He said that because he's also experienced it in the past.

I agree with what you said knowing Wemby which is for me, more versatile compared to what everybody's expecting from him. I mean we saw that when his ankle got sprained, he just walked away like nothing happened. Having this kind of injury can be a season-ending like what happened with Wemby and worse, it might be a career-ending one. Gladly, they are treating it immediately. Well, it's a good move from the Spurs to put him to rest for the remainder of the season because even he plays, I don't think that they will be a playoff contender team still.

They can make trades on the off-season, get another all-star player and compete in the playoffs once he's back from that injury. Prayers for him.

Yeah, nothing else but to rest him for future preference he's still young and with the development that spurs is building for him it's more appropriate to give him that enough time to heal his injury and be more ready next upcoming season, forcing him to play might damage him physically so for me that decision is much better for this young superstar.

The awards will be there once he already play healthier as we seen him doing everything and giving 100% each time he step foot inside the court. 

Spurs officials said they are expecting it to be a bit of a "one time deal" type of injury, not like something that will constantly happen, for three months he will be on blood thinners, and will be looked at until the next season, without working him too much meanwhile, and they are hoping that it won't repeat. This isn't at lungs or any other important place, it's at shoulder, but if they are not careful, it could definitely be career ending if it happens anywhere else.

This is why this is such a big deal, dude is young and has a huge career ahead of him. There are two cases everyone talks about, Ingram and Bosh had them, Bosh had it multiple times and at important places so he had to retire early, whereas Ingram had it unimportant place and not again so he continues.

Yeah that's why I understand his situation since somehow his provably adjusting on his new team and Luka is not 100% healthy since he's still recovering from his injury.

Provably we can see him wake up and back to his natural phase when he familiarize how his new teammates play and for sure Lakers management knows that. Luka is great player and for now he need to adjust on his new environment but for sure it will not take long knowing how great he is as a player. He's young and there still lot of potential from him and for sure Luka is fine in Lakers since provably that Bron will guide him since he future of Lakers franchise.