{"id":438577,"date":"2023-06-26T07:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T11:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438577"},"modified":"2023-06-26T07:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T11:52:02","slug":"wembanyama-will-miss-the-2023-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wembanyama-will-miss-the-2023-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama will miss the 2023 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Wembanyama will not be available for his country France at the 2023 World Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Victor Wembanyama will miss the upcoming FIBA World Cup \ud83d\udeab <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O0kbwVFuNI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/O0kbwVFuNI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BasketNews (@BasketNews_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasketNews_com\/status\/1673231572202315777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The number 1 pick at the 2023 NBA Draft shared with L\u2019Equipe newspaper that he won\u2019t be part of the France roster at the World Cup in the summer because he wants to protect his still-growing body.<\/p>\n<p>Victor claimed that this decision was not easy, but he also shared that it is permanent.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup will start at the end of August 25th and end on September 10<sup>th<\/sup> as 3 countries will host the tournament \u2013 Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>The new San Antonio Spurs center added that he decided \u201con his own\u201d after speaking with his entourage and medical experts. Wembanyama informed his teammates from the national team and the head coach about missing the World Cup over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Wembanyama will not be available for his country France at the 2023 World Cup. Victor Wembanyama will miss the upcoming FIBA World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438578,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17104,19413],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18132,19414,1067],"acf":{"announce":"He won\u2019t play for France at the upcoming basketball World Cup.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438577"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438577"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}