[Highlight] The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder 111-109 to advance to the NBA Cup championship. The win snaps Oklahoma City’s 16-game winning streak.
I’ll take 7 games of that please and thank you
7 years
Those 7 games will take 7 years judging by how tonight’s game ended
Lmaaaaaao
I won’t
Funny how fun games can be to watch when it isn’t constant light contact foul calls. Up until the last 2 minutes, that was a great game to watch.
we’re all spurs fans tonight
I never thought I’d be rooting side by side with a Rockets fan
How about side by side with an OKC hater?
I could do that.
And my axe
And our axe
I couldn’t quite bring myself to post this same thing to a Lakers fan. Can’t do it. But a Rockets fan?
Aye, I can do that.
Hey! Lakers fans are in this too.
Is this the Lord of the Rings meme
No because they’re not a friend. If the Martians were pointing the death beam at us and the Rockets were the only choice to save us I would gladly embrace the sweet release of death
Preach brother. I despise the Rockets and I cannot even remember an extended competitive rivalry with them. Maybe the Admiral Spurs and Hakeem Rockets, but I was still in kindergarten for that.
It has nothing to do with the rockets and everything to do with Houston
They’re taking the Thunder to Isengard!
I was also there rooting hard as balls.
We are Victor Wembanyama
WE CARRY THE FLAME🔥
You just created a million Chet Holmgrens
Je suis Wemby
Yeah. I do not know why I hate OKC and SGA but hell they are good
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If you don’t need a reason like something, then you don’t need a reason to not like something.
Dort
It’s dort snd the flopping. Yes I watched Bowen and Ginobili growing up
Caruso
They come across like a frat you dont like, who have nepotism (refs)
The narrative around the team makes them unlikable. Feels like I’m expected to crown them as some kind of dynasty already with SGA as the new Jordan but sorry it doesn’t work that way. And it makes the players’ individual talent less appealing because they’re all crybaby assholes who get away with shit constantly bc the refs and league love the team.
Worse thing is Okc fans don’t understand why their teams doesn’t get any respect and have to keep going around subreddits to beg people to like their team and to like sga while shitting on other players lol.
Its because they seemingly have an unfair advantage with the refs
Fuck OKC should be flair
feels like 2014 all over again
Hell yeah! I loved David Robinson as a kid
And now, I’m a big fan of Wemby as an adult
Facts
Especially considering OKC fans are always in the Nuggets game thread.
Go Spurs Go!!!
Babes we’re the sexiest team in the league SOUTH TEXAS REPRESENT
Tried to tell yall 3 hours ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/XupWsgi8dp
You know the Wemby love is real when a Rockets fan says something like this
Ong lol. FK OKC.😂👏🏾
Reminds me of the Spurs a few years ago, year one of the tank. They beat Philly in like the 3rd game of the season and the entire basketball planet was cheering them on in unison.
Okc is nothing without the refs.
Nothing unites Texas like hating Oklahoma
Time for the thunder to blow it up and rebuild, personally I’d trade some draft picks for a guy like kawhi
They should be calling Philly for a certain wing player
Sir, Embiid is not a wing.
Anything is a wing if you flap it hard enough.
I think the trade only works if Paul George comes as well. Can’t have Kawhi missing his bestie.
I mean Anthony Davis is right there!
Never seen Wemby play with this much hatred LMFAO, that boy was taunting chet on every free throw
The scream of joy after Chet’s missed FT was so funny
The let’s fucking go multiple times on his misses was great. Also his flex on Caruso. That man was chirping tonight, you know he was ready to get back on the court.
The broadcast said he should’ve done the “too small” gesture on Chet after the fade away
Wouldve been perfect on the block
Caruso was such a pest tonight (on and off the court), I’m glad he lost.
Caruso stare down after shooting over him had me going
He flexed on Wallace lmao
They were letting Caruso hack away on Wemby. That stare down was so deserved.
Wemby is underrated in how petty and like a straight up stereotypical French jerk he actually gets.
Nba cup is okc father
Wemby Wilkes Booth just assassinated Abraslam Lincoln
wemobamanyama defeated shaisis
Al Shaida and Chetenyahu have just been assassinated
Chetenyahu 💀
Comment of the month
I’m ok with that lol 😂 the last 2 champs have been first round exits don’t need that curse
Haha the loser of the finals actually did good in the playoffs. Just the actual champion that becomes first round exit. Do we need to lose the finals to the Knicks? Haha this is just weird.
This Wemby kid is making a name for himself. Another Spurs draft day steal.
6th man of the year.
Is Wemby the new Ginobili? Some people are saying.
Spurs and their nondescript Euro bigs
Legit don’t understand how he fell to No. 1
Such an impact in only 21 minutes. They need to be starting this guy
A huge reach, but I guess PAFTO knew what they were doing.
Yeah that’s how it feels Caruso, when someone fouls you
Castle should have had 6 and ones tonight
Blake Griffin just said exactly that to Castle on his post-game interview.
Props to Castle for making them all. Kids tough
And he got clobbered by Wemby going for a loose ball in the 4th. Tough as nails.
Caruso looking flabbergasted, now he knows how it feels lol
For a guy who fouls every play, he sure is shocked when the refs go against him
It was hilarious how he would flip out every time he got called for a foul. I get it though, dude is constantly getting away with murder so the whistle is indeed arbitrary.
That’s what people don’t get about why other fanbases hate this OKC team so much. They’ll foul the shit out of you in one end, and then try to get free throws on the other end for the same shit they just did. I don’t have a problem with physical defenses, I like the Pistons, Rockets, and Magic this season, but if you’re gonna live by the sword, then die by it too.
He should have been fouled out and OKC should have been in foul trouble all game with how many uncalled fouls Castle got.
lol, when the analysts brought Castle in for some questions and then played his 360 wrong way spin move, they all had a good laugh “you got fouled there” “yeah I know…”
Thought castle was about to die with the amount of times he was getting hacked.
Bro had a busted lip, bloody nose. There was a lay he made where he got bumped mid air then two plays later Shai shoots free throws for getting bumped on the ground pre layup
He is like the Luka of defense, just non stop complaints when the refs don’t let him get away with everything.
Both are good at what they do they do tho.
He is used to getting away with murder
He got away with fouling the Spurs like 20 times tonight. Even if he did get fouled I’m glad they didn’t call it.
Was he fouled or were they both going for the ball?
You should only be allowed to intentionally foul 1 time in the last minute. We don’t even get buzzer beaters anymore silver come on man.
they REALLY need to figure out a system that promotes something else
3 FTs in last minute instead of 2?
What I thought of is just they get one point without free throws and then they get possession. Keeps the game going. Shooting fouls stay the same, but bonus fouls are just point and ball. Less time wasted.
Can you imagine the flopping, though?
The product would be so bad at the end of the game
I feel like the refs can hold their whistle more than the coaches can hold their need to win.
Why not just you get throws and get to keep possession after, like they do in Europe?
I think eliminating the SGA two-leg kick-outs and making them offensive fouls is a more pressing issue.
and then the fun break in the action as the refs figure out if shea jumping on the defenders feet is a flagrant on the defender.
Right, I hate how even the commentators don’t call that kind of shit out. Who tf lands at a 30 degree angle with their feet sticking out a foot in front of them? His defender stayed as straight as possible and SGA had plenty of space, that was bullshit
Yeah, wtf. SGA needs to be given like a 5 ft landing pad. Gtfoh. Was a great game by both teams. Just glad to see the Spurs on top! Go Spurs Go!!!!
I will give it to him, debuting the Intentional Zaza for the NBA Cup was a smart move on the behalf of SGA. But yeah, the man should have more techs than Rasheed Wallace every year.
It’s frustrating but it’s the smart play
For sure it’s the smart play & I don’t blame teams for doing it, but that’s why it’s on Silver to change the rule
GG spurs. Go get the cup!
What a game tho
Respect
we’re getting the…..LLAMA!
WEVE GOT HONKERS DOWNTOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 10 YEARS. I REPEAT HONKERS DOWNTOWN
Damn bro that warms my heart.
Lol I live in the bay and last time everyone was honking like maniacs for a regular season Warriors game was the infamous Steph shot vs OKC. OKC just brings it out of people I guess.
The last 2 minutes of this game took around 35 minutes.
The Thunder vs Spurs rivalry is back!
*** NOW with busted LIPS!***
Did Castle have a nose bleed as well?
***LIPS and NOSES!*** Chet too early on.
Caruso may have been fouled but who’s gonna tell the refs
Caruso needs to stop hacking so much and than maybe they make that call…
Naw. Wasn’t fouled on replay. May have gotten his hand but that’s part of the ball.
As shitty of a behind the backboard shot that was, he kinda did get it up with 1.5seconds. Oh well balances out how he gets to defend bigs
He and Dort foul every play so it cancels out
It also may have been a lane violation
Spurs are a legit team they beat the two best teams in the west okc and the nuggets wemby just so impactful they just played like the wanted it more tonight okc was chilling till they realized shit got real and we got a good game of basketball
They actually beat the Nuggets at home without Wembanyama, tons of young talent on that team
All my homies hate okc we eating good tonight
Might have touched Caruso a bit there lmao.
oh please he fouled wemby like that every other play
He literally touches and shoves players all night long when he plays, it’s good that he got a taste of his own medicine
Agreed with what the others said. That’s a foul 90% of the time but so is ~500 other plays in this game that didn’t get called
A bit of poetic justice there in the end vs Caruso
If that’s a foul then Caruso would’ve had like 5 techs for hacking Wemby
yeah man, Wemby needs to start studying Wilt quite frankly. Learn how to use his advantages to deal with straight hacks. Wilt used to just get the ball and turn and fade quick kinda like Dirk
More then deserved
Makes up for the missed calls we got. I was losing my shit over the amount of times Castle got no calls.
I’ll allow it
Disagree.
other spurs flairs calling you out is funny
Okc can only lose in pacific time
Amazing game overall, Wemby is unreal, but the FT battle to end it made it feel so anticlimatic. We gotta bring back the elum ending for these cup games.
Yoooooo out coached and out played them (outside of first quarter lol)
It rlly looked like Shai was sitting another fourth during the first quarter
Any Spurs game mandates a big lead must be taken early and said lead must be blown in quick fashion, who takes and loses the lead is for us to find out
stephon castle is a better man than me wdym he got a bloody lip and nose just to shoot 2 free throws???
Bro went to war for us and made tough buckets through the contact
for the first time in NBA history, everyone (ofcourse except okc fans) is rooting for the spurs to win.
2014 had alot of people rooting for them
Easy game of the year so far
Vic did it all tonight. Couldn’t have asked for a better first game back
That was such a crazy game, my hat is off to the Spurs. Well deserved win.
High five, amigo
Forgot what it was like to lose tbh, doesn’t feel great
It builds character
Spurs fans had to build a lot of character the past few years. It’s about time we get to enjoy winning again.
Now just casually go on another winning streak lol
Don’t say that, man. We gotta face them two more times this month. :(
THE REFS FORGOT THEIR WHISTLE AND THE SPURS WIN
Poor castle needs a day off
We need a blowout and some DJG time…
Healthy WEMBY just makes Spurs a juggernaut
The evil can be defeated!
lane violation on Caruso anyways
GSG baby
The Spurs are gonna get their flowers tonight. But I can’t imagine how tough it’ll be to beat this OKC team 4 times in a series.
Extremely difficult. Shai had a quiet game and he still scored 29.
We showed that its not impossible though, Vic is a monster
If any team can do it, it is the Spurs. Wemby generally hates the thunder idk if it is because of chet or just the whole squad but he shows up every game. Now that he has a good team around him they can do it.
Spurs 🥶🥶🥶
Best game i’ve watched all season
Wemby is a monster. He was +21 in 21 minutes.
WOW! I mean this was such a masterclass from Wemby, not just scoring but play-making and changing the presence on-court
IHart immediately heading to the ref after the final whistle is just fucking LOL
Downvote me upvote me idc. This was the first okc game that I have seen all season officiated fairly and it was close and they lost… frauds
Had to end at some point can’t wait to get our get back in a few weeks time they are one hell of a team
We had to sit through so many shit posts from clowns about how we have too many guards, about how certain players won’t fit with each other, about how Wemby might actually not be able to fit into the offence blah blah blah.
Well, I hope y’all morons are eating crow now and actually STFU for once about one of the best organizations in the league that actually has a process.
lmao nephews at r/nbaspurs were calling Wemby a black hole on offense. dude literally turned the game around for the spurs as soon as he came in after that early-game thrashing by OKC.
we missed you alien
Over 8 years since Kawhi’s injury
Hand’s part of the ball when touching the ball.
GO SPURS GO I LOVE YOU VICTOR WEMBANYAMA
Absolute bombshell of a performance
I like when the good guys win. What a great game, what a great team and what an amazing player is Wemby
Great game but the highlight was van gundys deportation joke
Wemby forreal is the Chosen One
Go Spurs
(By a Lakers fan, who just got beaten by them)
wE DiId iTttTtT!!!!!!
The Spurs played stellar team defense.
This is what a game shall look like… great and intense… it seems like you are watching some playoff basketball..
And also Congrats to SPurs for winning that game…
brunson rubbing his hands together
Wemby blocking that midget from 20 ft away
I got down voted to hell when I said wemby and spurs were a great match up for the okc 2 days ago. Now they snapped the streak and beat okc with the perfect gameplan. Wemby dominated with 22 pts in 21 mins
Spurs played phenomenal team defense tonight
Idgaf if it was a foul on this play, Caruso got away with two blatant hacks. Basketball Gods blessed us tn.
The Spurs have arrived
The Spurs will face the Knicks in the NBA Cup championship on Tuesday in Las Vegas at 8:30 PM ET
GS MFing G
My baby goat did it
99 Finals replay!!