Victor Wembanyama still trying to move on from emotional Game 7 win over Thunder
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Even if they're at Cancun, the Oklahoma City Thunder have had an influence on how the 2026 NBA Finals have shaken out through two games. Or so Victor Wembanyama believes.
Failing to hit a game-winner in the final seconds, the San Antonio Spurs fell into a 0-2 series hole to the New York Knicks. Wow. Not even the biggest East Coast homers could dare think the red-hot squad would extend its NBA playoff win streak to a ridiculous 13 in a row.
The series isn't over yet, but the Spurs are on the verge of getting knocked out before even delivering a punch. Their room for error is at zero the rest of the way. Somehow, someway, the young 62-win regular-season team has to go to an earsplitting MSG that will surely rattle them.
How did the Spurs get to this point? They entered the 2026 NBA Finals as the favorite. Once they took down the beaten-up Thunder, it felt like Wembanyama would have a cakewalk to his first championship ring as he breaks every piece of basketball conventional wisdom known to the sport's history.
Still in shock about dropping two home games, Wembanyama believes that flipping the page from their epic 2026 Western Conference Final duel was tougher than anticipated. Even with the 22-year-old's effort to help his team move on from beating the Thunder, they still came out looking flat.
"We need to never get too high, never get too low. Personally, I think I could've been better in recovering from the high of the Conference Finals. But I mean, here we are," Wembanyama said. "We can't change the past now. We're already focused on Game 3."
That's a pretty wild thing to admit — at least publicly. But credit Wembanyama for being brutally honest. I don't have a problem with how the Spurs celebrated their Game 7 win over the Thunder. The seven-footer was named the Conference Finals MVP and hugged teammate after teammate in the closing seconds.
It was a helluva feat to accomplish. You won't see me make any Super Bowl jokes — even if it's incredibly low-hanging fruit. The NBA world viewed the Thunder and Spurs as the top two teams and a pseudo-NBA Finals. Little did they know, though, that the Knicks would rip off one of the most impressive postseason stretches the sport has ever seen. Now, San Antonio is in an uphill battle. And OKC is partially a reason for that.
This article originally appeared on OKC Thunder Wire: Wembanyama still trying to move on from emotional Game 7 win over OKC