His defense is so far outside the norm its in it’s own category. He legit breaks the game.

I’m a firm believer in playoff experience being the most overblown thing in sports. At the end of the day it’s still basketball and all of these guys have played in high leverage situations before.

He is a walking exception

Luck and skill but I agree. How tf do you go from David Robinson, Duncan to Wemby

As a Spurs fan, I was prepared for the team to suck for a long time after Timmy retired and Kawhi fucked us over. They gave me like 20 years straight of pure joy, so I was willing to stand by them for 20 years of pure ass. But the basketball gods decided we would get insane luck on several drafts, so I’ll take it.

Harper looks like he might have All-NBA upside

Harper is looking like a potential all-timer at this point. Obviously nothing is ever set in stone in this world, but it is a very rare rookie talent that performs reasonably well in these situations – Harper not only put on a stunning performance in multiple games, he also made incredible plays on both ends that inspire a ton of faith in his potential.

Harper could end up a superstar in his own right. But it’s never been harder to keep a team together or stay competitive over time. There will be a new title winner for, I think this will mark the eighth year straight?

If any team is positioned to break that trend, it’s this spurs, though we thought the same of OKC heading into this season.

might

lol. Understatement of the year.

All-Nba ?  he might be all time upside

Luck definitely plays a role but there’s some teams that reliably develop and coach players to point where one needs to admit, there is a method to it as well. Spurs do it, Boston does it, OKC does it - making good selection matters but you can’t tell me all these pieces just fall into their lap. We just saw a series involving Champagnie and McCain who were both tossed by the Sixers play meaningful minutes throughout.

You can say that about any player. He surpassed everybody.

LeBron did this without having two top 5 picks that came after he got there. Not the only reason the spurs are winning but it helped being able to get your generational player good fitting co stars as well. Wemby would be on goat trajectory win a finals win at this age though

Way better team tho. Jamario moon wouldn’t even start on this team

This Thunder team is way better than any team LeBron faced in the East his first 4 years

I wouldnt go quite that far, as the quality of the rosters around them is veeeery different. He’s fully on the trajectory tho

Classy lay

Proper fucked

Devin loves being a spur and unless they offer him a shit contract or force him out he’s gonna stay.

Julian I could see leaving for a bag though. Rightfully so. Dude was UNDRAFTED and now starting in the nba finals. For a whopping 3? Mill this year

Julian is on minimum I’m scared another team is going to throw some money at him. He’s proven to be one of the most reliable role players in the league this year

Harper Castle and Victor are long term core. Devin and Julian are impact players, but are guys you don’t want to pay too much for, but need others to fill their role. Their grit and confidence was amazing to see. It felt like they all wanted smoke.

I think it is going to be hard to hold on to Julian after next season. He deserves to get paid and I don’t think we have the cap space.

Thunder aren’t going anywhere either. Just have to get JDub healthy.

Thunder can still improve. Most likely getting rid of Dort, Mccain was a huge pickup, they have the 12th pick I believe this year, JDub will probably get healthy and I would certainly expect Chet to improve.

Who knows they could possibly win it again next season

Things change so quickly in the NBA. OKC won it last year, dominated the regular season and then got injuries at the wrong time. We’ll see what they do in the summer, but it can all fall apart, if they make some wrong moves.

San Antonio look like they’ll dominate for years, but again you never know. Injuries happen, players want bigger roles, player can’t agree about the contracts, bad trades can happen…

I think he just means for Wemby. magic won finals MVP at 20.

Well we waited and saw, was that too much to ask for? Look at how Chet and Duren turned into pumpkins when it mattered. Of course Wemby was never gonna shit the bed like that but saying a player is the best player in the world without seeing him play a single game in the playoffs was always early, even if he avereages 100 points in the finals, its still true. He did it, imo he is the best right now

Wemby has a brother!

Unironically, this might be the most respectful Spurs-Thunder fan interaction I’ve seen on this sub for the past two hours

Injuries happen and there is nothing we can do abt it, we rushed him too I think, so he never really was fully healthy.

If jdub + Ajay and Fox + Harper were all healthy I think the series will go to 7 still

Or duncan

We’re just speed running the narratives right now. Today he’s better than Miami Bron. By late 2027 he’ll be the villain of the league and people will create cringe posts about how nice and lovable he used to be.

There were still plenty of teams tanking that year. Everyone knew Wemby would be the consensus #1 prospect by a mile. It wasn’t like it was some secret that you had to have a french player for to figure out. Spurs just got the luck of the lottery.

²⁰²²⁄₂₀₂₃ season. Tank should’ve started in 22