{"id":9851,"date":"2025-01-26T12:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T12:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/san-antonio-spurs-98-136-indiana-pacers-victor-wembanyamas-side-lose-in-paris\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T12:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T12:34:35","slug":"san-antonio-spurs-98-136-indiana-pacers-victor-wembanyamas-side-lose-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/san-antonio-spurs-98-136-indiana-pacers-victor-wembanyamas-side-lose-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs 98-136 Indiana Pacers: Victor Wembanyama&#8217;s side lose in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Frenchman Victor Wembanyama could not prevent the San Antonio Spurs from losing 136-98 to the Indiana Pacers in Paris.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cvgp86vz35vo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Beaten 140-110<\/a> by the Spurs on Thursday in the first of two regular-season NBA games in the French capital, the Pacers ran out comfortable winners at Accor Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tyrese Haliburton scored 28 points and Pascal Siakam 23 for the Pacers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wembanyama, who played for Paris-based Metropolitans 92 before being selected by the Spurs as the number one pick in the NBA Draft in 2023, managed 20 points and 12 rebounds. Team-mate Harrison Barnes scored 25 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is the fourth year that the NBA has staged regular-season matches in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been really fun to be here,&#8221; said Haliburton. &#8220;It&#8217;s helping grow the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We just wanted to leave the city on a good note. It was a really good showing from us tonight and [we] just want to carry this momentum going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wembanyama, who was part of the France side beaten by the USA in the Olympic final last summer, scored 30 points in Thursday&#8217;s win over the Pacers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pacers are fifth in the Eastern Conference and the Spurs fourth bottom of the West.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cdd93ymg90vo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frenchman Victor Wembanyama could not prevent the San Antonio Spurs from losing 136-98 to the Indiana Pacers in Paris. Beaten 140-110 by the Spurs on Thursday in the first of two regular-season NBA games in the French capital, the Pacers ran out comfortable winners at Accor Arena. Tyrese Haliburton scored 28 points and Pascal Siakam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9853,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions\/9853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}