Warriors guard Moses Moody earned a position of leadership on Monday morning.

The fourth-year pro out of Arkansas and starter for Golden State was announced as a member of the National Basketball Players Association’s Board of Directors. The NBPA is the union that represents NBA players.

According to a press release sent out by the NBPA, Moody will join Grizzlies forward Santi Aldama on its Board of Directors, and will be part of a panel that decides how “to deliver philanthropic resources for current and former NBA players.”

In a joint statement with Aldama, Moody said, “We are honored to join the NBPA Foundation’s Board of Directors and play an integral role in supporting players and uplifting communities, Philanthropy and social responsibility are engrained in the DNA of our players, and this opportunity enables us to elevate our involvement and take a more active role in the Foundation’s impactful work.”

Moody, who averaged 9.8 points per game and was the team’s top perimeter defender last season, founded the Motivate One Foundation, and also served as a coach at a Basketball Without Borders camp in South Africa.

He is also recovering from thumb surgery in May on his dominant right hand and is expected to be ready for the start of training camp in October.

— Joseph Dycus

Wembanyama says he’s cleared to play

San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama expects to play this coming season and has been fully cleared after dealing with deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in his shoulder for the past few months, he told the French newspaper L’Equipe in remarks published Monday.

A person familiar with the situation later told The Associated Press that the Spurs have indeed received word that Wembanyama has been cleared to resume play and, barring anything unforeseen, will be able to fully participate in training camp when it opens this fall.

It has been expected that the team anticipated Wembanyama would be able to start this coming season, though there was no official word until now.

“I’m officially cleared to return. … I’ll finally be able to play a bit of basketball again,” Wembanyama told the French sports daily.

The fact that Wembanyama has been cleared suggests that his type of DVT was provoked, which would rule out a genetic predisposition to a clot returning. The Spurs have not disclosed specifics of Wembanyama’s shoulder issue, but there is a type of DVT that appears when a blood vessel in someone’s upper arm can be compressed by a rib (the top rib is removed in some cases to relieve the compression, if that is the cause) or a muscle. Such issues have proven to be treatable in the past.

Many other athletes have dealt with similar issues. Serena Williams came back to dominate women’s tennis after a clotting issue following the birth of her daughter; Williams needed four surgeries to address the matter. Basketball Hall of Famer Chris Bosh had to eventually retire from the NBA after he was diagnosed with multiple clots. In hockey, Tomas Fleischmann developed clots and went on to play for years afterward; Tomas Vokoun needed surgery to relieve his clotting problem and never played in the NHL again.

“I was afraid of not being able to play basketball anymore,” Wembanyama said in the interview. “I think that we all have thoughts sometimes. Irrational thoughts about the things we care about most. But this type of thinking also changes you as a person, for the better.”