{"id":516150,"date":"2026-01-04T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/516150\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:53:41","slug":"spurs-and-other-things-i-am-looking-forward-to-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/516150\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs and other things I am looking forward to in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">San Antonio Spurs<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Last season\u2019s wins: 34<br \/>Vegas over\/under: 43.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">I had forgotten that last season\u2019s Spurs beat out only two Western Conference teams \u2013 the Jazz and the Pelicans. Losing your best player in February has a tendency to hurt a team\u2019s win total. Because that player is back, and very good, and for other reasons everyone reading this knows about, Vegas has projected the Spurs to improve more in 2025-26 than every other team except one (a team which we have not yet mentioned). Who am I to disagree? I am also contractually obligated to say OVER, and I know better than to breach my contract before \u201cthe powers that be\u201d decide on my Christmas bonus. OVER, OVER, OVER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs Last season\u2019s wins: 34Vegas over\/under: 43.5 I had forgotten that last season\u2019s Spurs beat out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,5842,6,969,474,4075,4074,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-516150","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-general","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sanantoniospurs","15":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115837167696476295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516150","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=516150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}