Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs, who were scheduled to face the Lakers in the NBA on Saturday evening, remained stuck in their hotel for five days due to the violent fires in Los Angeles.
A wait that is both interminable and agonizing. Traveling to Los Angeles, where they were to face the Lakers on Saturday evening in the NBA before the match was postponed, Victor Wembanyama and his teammates remained stranded for five days in their hotel due to the violent fires that have been raging for nearly a week in California and which left at least 24 dead.
The meeting scheduled for this Monday evening
Arriving on site two days before the match, the Spurs, who were forced to change establishments to escape the flames, remained confined as a safety measure. “We’re in our hotel room, we can’t go anywhere, we can’t do anything,” guard Devin Vassell told the San Antonio Express News.
And he thought he was going back a few years in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic. “There is nothing open. And what’s more, with everything that’s going on, do we really want to do anything? It’s a bit as if Covid had started again,” he added.
The Texan franchise took advantage of this time to train at the rate of two sessions per day. But Spurs’ long wait will end. Despite the still worrying context, the meeting against the Lakers of Lebron James, whose coach JJ Redick saw his house destroyed in the upscale neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, must take place this Monday evening.
And San Antonio, ranked 12th in the Western Conference, will try to get back into the race for the play-offs and put an end to a series of three consecutive losses.
