{"id":625769,"date":"2026-02-26T10:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625769\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:13:21","slug":"spurs-extend-winning-run-to-close-gap-on-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625769\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs extend winning run to close gap on Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:BBC;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"BBC\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"195\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9188fa80-1cd1-11ee-adeb-4290b12541e6.png\"\/><\/a>Thu, February 26, 2026 at 8:55 AM UTC<img alt=\"Dylan Harper of the San Antonio Spurs drives to the basket against the Toronto Raptors\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"713\" height=\"401\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b41960dbbc036db40608cdf1ebfc75c2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dylan Harper (right) scored 15 points off the bench for the Spurs<\/p>\n<p>The San Antonio Spurs beat the Toronto Raptors to extend their winning run and close in on NBA Western Conference leaders Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Vassell scored 21 points and De&#8217;Aaron Fox 20 as the visitors triumphed 110-107 at Scotiabank Arena to claim a 10th successive win for the first time since the 2015-16 season.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Wembanyama scored only 12 points for the Spurs but made a crucial block &#8211; his fifth of the game &#8211; with 44 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs improved to 42-16, while the Thunder are 45-15 after losing 124-116 at Eastern Conference leaders Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n<p>Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren scored 29 points apiece for the Pistons, while the NBA&#8217;s Most Valuable Player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander missed a ninth straight game for the Thunder because of injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons improved to 43-14, going ahead of the Thunder for the league&#8217;s best record and extending their lead the top of the Eastern Conference above the Boston Celtics, who lost 103-84 at the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic scored 30 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>The Milwaukee Bucks overcame the continued absence of two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo with a calf injury to win 118-116 at home against the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavs were without new signing James Harden after he suffered a broken thumb in Tuesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cn716y5rg8do?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Baol.com%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:win over the New York Knicks.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">win over the New York Knicks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Houston Rockets beat the Sacramento Kings 128-97 &#8211; their biggest victory of the season &#8211; while the Golden State Warriors won 133-112 at the Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, February 26, 2026 at 8:55 AM UTC Dylan Harper (right) scored 15 points off the bench for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,75,909,193,65885,187,188,2725,226,1409,123,164,194,912,560,177,6,191,253,310,475,179,3966,3965,477,474,209,2594,312,476,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-625769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-cade-cunningham","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-de39aaron-fox","13":"tag-denver-nuggets","14":"tag-detroit-pistons","15":"tag-devin-vassell","16":"tag-dylan-harper","17":"tag-eastern-conference","18":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","19":"tag-golden-state-warriors","20":"tag-houston-rockets","21":"tag-jalen-duren","22":"tag-james-harden","23":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-new-york-knicks","26":"tag-nikola-jokic","27":"tag-oklahoma","28":"tag-oklahoma-city","29":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","30":"tag-oklahomacity","31":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","32":"tag-sacramento-kings","33":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","34":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","35":"tag-the-spurs","36":"tag-thunder","37":"tag-toronto-raptors","38":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625769","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=625769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}