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[Post Game Thread] The Oklahoma City Thunder (1-1) tie the series in Game 2 against the San Antonio Spurs (1-1), 122-113, behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s 30 point performance

[Lowlight] Isaiah Hartenstein pulls Stephon Castle by the hair

[Highlight] Stephon Castle destroys Isaiah Hartenstein with the poster (with replay)

[Highlight] Stephon Castle’s hair gets pulled by Isaiah Hartenstein, no call, and Jared McCain hits the 3-pointer (with a replay of the pull)

[Highlight] Compilation of Isaiah Hartenstein grabbing, holding, and grappling with Victor Wembanyama

[Highlight] Harrison Barnes called for a foul on Isaiah Joe

[Lowlight] Upon replay, Jared McCain clearly grabs Stephon Castle’s wrist to win the tip

[Highlight] Stephon Castle straight murders Hartenstein with the poster

Reggie Miller: “I guarantee you, between all the clenching Hartenstein has done versus Wemby, and now that. The league is gonna take a long look”

[Highlight] Isaiah Hartenstein holding Victor Wembanyama

Carter Bryant using the public restroom mid-game

Victor Wembanyama watches SGA lift the MVP trophy in front of him

SGA on Hartenstein’s impact tonight: “I’m not sure it was good”

[NBA] That time Wemby showed us his POV on a basketball court

[Highlight] Victor Wembanyama is called for the foul, as he is entangled with Isaiah Hartenstein. The Spurs successfully challenge the call, and Hartenstein receives his early 2nd foul

With a replay.

[Lowlight] Julian Champagnie hesitates on the three-pointer, allowing Isaiah Joe to sell the flop

[Charania] Spurs’ De’Aaron Fox is expected to miss his second consecutive contest in Game 2 tonight against the Oklahoma City Thunder due to a right high ankle sprain, sources tell ESPN.

NBA PR: The San Antonio Spurs’ double-overtime victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder to open the Western Conference Finals delivered the highest average viewership for a Western Conference Finals Game 1 on record, averaging 9.2 million viewers on NBC/Peacock

[Highlight] Victor Wembanyama blocks Chet Holmgren under the rim, gets called for the foul (3rd foul), and the Spurs use their second and last challenge to successfully overturn it.

3rd block for Wemby.

With replays.

[Melnick] “Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has a -35.6 net on-off rating in this year’s playoffs,” which “is the lowest mark of any qualified player still remaining in the postseason.”

[Charania] 2025-2026 NBA All-Rookie teams: First team: Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper, Kon Knueppel, VJ Edgecombe, Cedric Coward. Second team: Ace Bailey, Jeremiah Fears, Collin Murray-Boyles, Maxime Raynaud, Derik Queen

Jeff Teague: “Shoutout to JJ Redick. People are taking his blueprint on how to stop SGA, and applying it. He changed the whole way of guarding OKC. This might hurt OKC going forward, and their whole trajectory of being a dynasty. That way of guarding him may have messed up everything”

[Russo] Stephon Castle now has the most turnovers (19) over any 2-game stretch in NBA postseason history.

[Chaudhary] “When I was in Golden State and we played Houston, we counted James Harden’s dribbles. We told our guys he’s dribbling close to 1000 times a game,” Brown said. He added, “Keep picking him up full court and making him dribble. At the end of the game, it would wear him down.”

Carmelo Anthony invites Jeremy Lin on his podcast: “Jeremy Lin, I’m giving you my invite to come sit on the couch. Let’s have a conversation, let’s clear the air on a lot of bullshit that’s out there please… Come speak the truth.”

SGA says “calm the fuck down” after sinking the jumper

Reporter: “Are we already at a Game 5 level of attrition?” Mark Daigneault: No, we’re at game 2 and game 3 is coming up next, and, game 5 will be after game 4 and because the teams split, there will be a game 5.”

[ESPN] Timberwolves seeking leap to NBA’s top tier, team president Tim Connelly says | “We know our competition is not going to sit still, and nor will we,” Connelly said. “If we mess up, we’ll mess up loudly. We’re going to try to be as aggressive as possible.”

[Highlight] Stephon Castle with a monster poster dunk on Isaiah Hartenstein (with replays)

[Highlight] SGA shakes Carter Bryant and drills the mid range jumper

SGA clarifies earlier comments on Hartenstein: “I didn’t really hear her. And then once I realized what she said, I gave her the right answer. I heard it wrong what she said”

[Haynes] San Antonio Spurs guard Dylan Harper (right leg) is out for the remainder of tonight’s game.

Shai on telling Jared McCain to calm down: “Jared was yelling at me while I was shooting, and I was just like bro, I’m shooting, don’t distract me.”

[Highlight] Victor Wembanyama beats Isaiah Hartenstein to the rebound, gets hit in the face by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and still cashes the three-pointer (with replay)

Cason Wallace in the win: 12/4/4/4 on 100% TS

[Injury] Dylan Harper heads back to the locker room after tweaking hamstring

Alex Caruso in the win: 17/3/5 on 97% TS

Victor Wembanyama despite the refs in game 2: 21 PTS, 17 REB, 6 AST, 1 STL, 4 BLK

Mike Brown is questionable with calf soreness after trying to call timeout at the end of regulation last night, but says he’s good to go for Game 2: “I would’ve blown my Achilles out if I didn’t have on my PF Flyers.”

Stephon Castle has 20 turnovers through two games of the Western Conference Finals

[Highlight] Wemby misses a shot and puts it back in one motion

[Highlight] Spurs off-ball defense on Shai in the fourth quarter of Game 2

[Injury] Dylan Harper wants to get back on the court, but the Spurs’ staff tells him to get back towards the locker room.

Draymond Green on the Cleveland Cavaliers: “When Dennis Schröder left the game things got a little bleak. Because you got guys in there that don’t really want that challenge, they don’t want to fight through the screen and say that’s my matchup I want to stop this guy. They don’t do it.”

[Highlight] Dylan Harper bullies Luguentz Dort to the rim and scores easily

Victor Wembanyama: “Not well. We got help our ball handlers more and take care of the ball”

Devin Vassell despite the loss: ²²⁄₄ on 74% TS

Kenny Atkinson: “[James Harden] is a good isolation defender… I was a little more upset with our back line defense… Everybody’s putting it on James… Sure, some of it was him… Sometimes micro experiences get exaggerated.”

[Highlight] Alex Caruso drives and draws Victor Wembanyama’s second foul, early in the 2nd quarter, as Hartenstein grabs Wemby’s arm (with replays)