{"id":493394,"date":"2025-12-24T13:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/493394\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:44:34","slug":"everyone-said-the-same-thing-after-thunder-lost-to-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/493394\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone said the same thing after Thunder lost to Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans are starting to sense a trend after the Oklahoma City Thunder lost to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs dealt the Thunder their fourth loss of the season in a decisive 130-110 beatdown. The contest between the two Western Conference heavyweights remained tight up until the fourth quarter, when the Spurs took control of the game for good.<\/p>\n<p>A Victor Wembanyama three-pointer gave the Spurs a 98-86 lead with nine minutes left in the quarter. The home team held onto the double-digit lead over the defending champs the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second time the Thunder have lost to the Spurs over the span of 11 days. OKC also lost to San Antonio in a 111-109 affair when the two sides faced off on Dec. 13 in the NBA Cup semifinals. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Spurs have beaten the Thunder twice this month. \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TvpCpautX1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/TvpCpautX1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 theScore (@theScore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theScore\/status\/2003674670965620840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 24, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The Thunder\u2019s first three losses were by a combined nine points. The 20-point drubbing on Tuesday was the first time OKC looked mortal all season.<\/p>\n<p>Several fans raised the possibility that the Spurs may be the Thunder\u2019s Kryptonite.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Spurs may actually be the biggest threat to the Thunder this year.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t believe this game isn\u2019t on national TV for everyone to see.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brett Siegel (@BrettSiegelNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrettSiegelNBA\/status\/2003668793843941416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 24, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spurs looking like the OKC Thunder&#8217;s achilles heel<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ahmed\/The Ears\/IG: BigBizTheGod \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf4 (@big_business_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/big_business_\/status\/2003672184884253077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 24, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">spurs beat the thunder twice ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n6gVWpPn7n\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/n6gVWpPn7n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Coach Rome (@Rome_Beast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rome_Beast\/status\/2003672163832988141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 24, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m typing this, but the Spurs have the Thunder\u2019s number. I thought nobody did. They do.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSkipBayless\/status\/2003675356038070525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 24, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In all fairness to the Thunder, they were on the second night of a back-to-back on the road. Those conditions are widely considered scheduled losses for even the best team.<\/p>\n<p>The real winners are the fans, who get to watch the Spurs and Thunder duke it out again on OKC\u2019s home turf two days later.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans are starting to sense a trend after the Oklahoma City Thunder lost to the San Antonio Spurs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,6,179,69889,969,474,4075,4074,534,69890],"class_list":{"0":"post-493394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","11":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder-fans","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","14":"tag-sanantonio","15":"tag-sanantoniospurs","16":"tag-spurs","17":"tag-spurs-fans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115774846796520504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}