"Affected last week during the Euroleague meeting against Zenith Saint Petersburg (Wednesday), Victor Wembanyama suffers from a bone contusion in his right shoulder," Asvel said in a statement.
The interior, which will turn 18 on January 4, did not play Villeurbanne's next match against Olympiakos (lost 89-54).
Announced as one of the very first picks of the NBA 2023 draft, the giant (2.19 m) trained in Nanterre sees his season disrupted by physical problems.
After a viral infection at the very start of his exercise, he was absent from the courts for three weeks in November due to a broken finger.
It is also a new blow for Asvel, affected by a new injury.
Tony Parker's club is still deprived in this same domestic sector of its rookie Raymar Morgan, operated on a herniated disc and unavailable until the end of the year 2021, but especially of his winger David Lighty.
Since the fractured right hand of the American, the Rhone have won only one of their eight Euroleague matches - against six of the previous eight.
They will have to do without him again, nor Victor Wembanyama therefore, for the reception of Fenerbahçe on Thursday.
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