Victor Wembanyama’s confession about De’Aaron Fox’s last-second miss

With 6.4 seconds left in the game, they trailed by a point to the Golden State Warriors, San Antonio Spurs put the ball in your hands De’Aaron Fox. The 2023 NBA Basketball Player of the Year took the ball from behind the halfway line. After a screen from reigning Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle, and with Victor Vembanyama in the paint points up to propose a lobFox took a step back with a left elbow jumper over Gary Payton II.

The shot hit the front of the rim from Fox’s vantage point. The buzzer sounded tenths of a second later, cementing Golden State’s second straight loss.

Given his position on the other side of the rim from where Fox unleashed the potential game-winner, Wemby was asked if his former All-Star teammate’s shot looked like it was going through the net.

“I don’t know,” he replied, before clarifying.

“No.”

of meat, who led the silver and black with 26 pointsand then offered more insight from his point of view.

“I wanted to come back,” Wemby noted. “I was in a good position to jump, but it went the other way.”

Victor Wembanyama describes the final game in the defeat to the Warriors

Asked how he saw the final play unfold, Wemby confirmed what many had assumed.

“Because of the intricacies, we have to see the footage again, but we had two options to play,” Wembanyama said, confirming he was in the mix to get the ball on that final possession.

“We went to one of them. De’Aaron and I were on opposite sides of the court.”

The 7-foot-5 center gave a nod to the play that head coach Mitch Johnson drew, though at the time he was unsure how the rest of the Spurs performed.

“For the other (teammates on the field), I have to see, to look again at how we pitched, but I think (the game) put the defense in a difficult position.”

As to whether Wemby was okay with Fox’s attempted disappearance, the answer turned out to be pretty definitive.

“We trust De’Aaron with shots like that. History has proven he’s more than capable of making things happen this way in a game. I know the team trusts me to make that last shot.”

Ultimately, Spurs’ leading scorer turned to other factors as to why his team suffered 109-108 loss to Golden State.

“We can turn that play (replay) over in our heads again,” Wemby said. “That’s not the reason we lost the game.”

“Being more disruptive,” was Wembanyama’s response when asked about the main reason his team missed out. “I see Curry go 16-for-26, 9-for-17 from three, so that says a lot. We didn’t take away what we should have.”

Curry scored 49 points per game dropping 46 in a win at the same Frost Bank Center two nights earlier. That, the No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft insisted, proved more of a difference, even in a game San Antonio could have won at the buzzer.