{"id":744883,"date":"2026-05-27T01:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/744883\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:03:20","slug":"spurs-vs-thunder-live-updates-2026-nba-playoffs-game-5-score-highlights-stats-analysis-from-wcf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/744883\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs vs Thunder live updates: 2026 NBA Playoffs Game 5 score, highlights, stats, analysis from WCF"},"content":{"rendered":"

How did we get to 2-2 series tie?<\/p>\n

For four games, this has been an epic series \u2014 one that seemingly sets up a rivalry that will dominate the NBA for the next five years (at least).<\/p>\n

Game 1 was an announcement by Victor Wembanyama that he has to be in the conversation for best player walking the face of the earth \u2014 41 points and 24 rebounds, dominating the double-overtime Spurs win.<\/p>\n

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HLs: Wemby puts on historic show in WCFs Game 1<\/p>\n

Victor Wembanyama became the youngest player in history to post a 40-20 stat line in the Conference Finals, willing his San Antonio Spurs to victory in Game 1 against the defending champs.<\/p>\n

Game 2 featured Shai Gilgeous-Alexander looking like the MVP, scoring 30 and sparking a Thunder win to tie the series. Game 3 saw the venue shift to San Antonio, but the result was the same \u2014 the Spurs tried to blitz and double SGA, but he kept finding the open man, and the Thunder\u2019s role players knocked down their shots. OKC took a 2-1 series lead.<\/p>\n

Game 4 felt different. Part of that was us getting to watch Wembanyama get back into the paint and dominate again, scoring 33 points on the night. However, the more important factor was that the Spurs changed up how they guarded Gilgeous-Alexander, not double-teaming him but leaving a single defender (usually Stephon Castle) on him and bringing a late double if he drove into the lane or got to a dangerous spot. SGA wanted to pass out of that, but with Jalen Williams (hamstring) and Ajay Mitchell (calf) out injured, the Thunder were short a ball handler and lost 103-82.<\/p>\n

That leaves the series tied 2-2 heading into a critical Game 5. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How did we get to 2-2 series tie? For four games, this has been an epic series \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,312],"class_list":["post-744883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oklahomacity","tag-oklahomacitythunder","tag-thunder"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116643850055146969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744883","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=744883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}