{"id":29906,"date":"2026-05-23T07:26:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-san-antonio-spurs-108-123-oklahoma-city-thunder\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:26:58","slug":"nba-san-antonio-spurs-108-123-oklahoma-city-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-san-antonio-spurs-108-123-oklahoma-city-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: San Antonio Spurs 108-123 Oklahoma City Thunder –"},"content":{"rendered":"


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In the series opener Wembanyama became the youngest player in NBA history to score 40 points and make 20 rebounds in a play-off game as the Spurs won 122-115.<\/a><\/p>\n

He finished with 21 points and 17 rebounds in game two, which the Spurs lost 122-113.<\/a><\/p>\n

“My shooting splits aren’t terrible,” said 22-year-old Wembanyama.<\/p>\n

“I need to facilitate better, rebound the ball better, push their defence a little bit further and see how much they need to help with my team-mates and feed them.”<\/p>\n

The Thunder scored 76 points off the bench at Frost Bank Center in game three, the most in a conference finals game since the 16-team play-off format was introduced in 1984.<\/p>\n

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for two seasons in a row, scored 26 points and made 12 assists for the Thunder, while Jared McCain scored 24.<\/p>\n

Game four takes place at the same venue on Sunday (01:00 BST, Monday).<\/p>\n

The winners of the Western Conference finals will meet the New York Knicks or the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, starting on 4 June.<\/p>\n

The Knicks lead 2-0 in the Eastern Conference finals before game three at Rocket Arena in Cleveland on Saturday (01:00 BST, Sunday).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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In the series opener Wembanyama became the youngest player in NBA history to score 40 points and make 20 rebounds in a play-off game as the Spurs won 122-115. He finished with 21 points and 17 rebounds in game two, which the Spurs lost 122-113. “My shooting splits aren’t terrible,” said 22-year-old Wembanyama. “I need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29906","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\/29906","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=29906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29908,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906\/revisions\/29908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}