NBA Cup: Victor Wembanyama returns as San Antonio Spurs beat Oklahoma City Thunder
The NBA Cup is an annual in-season competition tournament, with all games except the Finals also counting toward the regular season.
The Thunder were defeated by the Milwaukee Bucks in last year’s finals and had a 16-game winning streak that was ended by the Spurs as they exited this season’s competition.
Oklahoma City tied its best start to a season at 25 games when they went 24-1 to defeat the Phoenix Suns in the quarterfinals, but have now made the second-best start to the campaign after 26 games as the Golden State Warriors went 25-1 at the same stage in 2015-16.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the reigning NBA MVP, led the Thunder against the Spurs with 29 points.
San Antonio will play against the New York Knicks in the finals after they beat the Orlando Magic 132-120.
Jalen Branson scored a season-high 40 points to inspire the Knicks to victory, while teammate Karl-Anthony Towns added 29 points.
“We came here and did exactly what we said we wanted to do, which was to play Knicks basketball,” Towns said.
2025-12-14 07:28:00
