{"id":754514,"date":"2026-06-07T02:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/754514\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T02:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:36:14","slug":"victor-wembanyama-still-trying-to-move-on-from-emotional-game-7-win-over-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/754514\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama still trying to move on from emotional Game 7 win over Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even if they’re at Cancun, the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> have had an influence on how the 2026 NBA Finals have shaken out through two games. Or so Victor Wembanyama<\/a> believes.<\/p>\n

Failing to hit a game-winner in the final seconds, the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> fell into a 0-2 series hole to the New York Knicks<\/a>. Wow. Not even the biggest East Coast homers could dare think the red-hot squad would extend its NBA playoff win streak to a ridiculous 13 in a row.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

The series isn’t over yet, but the Spurs are on the verge of getting knocked out before even delivering a punch. Their room for error is at zero the rest of the way. Somehow, someway, the young 62-win regular-season team has to go to an earsplitting MSG that will surely rattle them.<\/p>\n

How did the Spurs get to this point? They entered the 2026 NBA Finals as the favorite. Once they took down the beaten-up Thunder, it felt like Wembanyama would have a cakewalk to his first championship ring as he breaks every piece of basketball conventional wisdom known to the sport’s history.<\/p>\n

Still in shock about dropping two home games, Wembanyama believes that flipping the page from their epic 2026 Western Conference Final duel was tougher than anticipated. Even with the 22-year-old’s effort to help his team move on from beating the Thunder, they still came out looking flat.<\/p>\n

“We need to never get too high, never get too low. Personally, I think I could’ve been better in recovering from the high of the Conference Finals. But I mean, here we are,” Wembanyama said. “We can’t change the past now. We’re already focused on Game 3.”<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

That’s a pretty wild thing to admit \u2014 at least publicly. But credit Wembanyama for being brutally honest. I don’t have a problem with how the Spurs celebrated their Game 7 win over the Thunder. The seven-footer was named the Conference Finals MVP and hugged teammate after teammate in the closing seconds.<\/p>\n

It was a helluva feat to accomplish. You won’t see me make any Super Bowl jokes \u2014 even if it’s incredibly low-hanging fruit. The NBA world viewed the Thunder and Spurs as the top two teams and a pseudo-NBA Finals. Little did they know, though, that the Knicks would rip off one of the most impressive postseason stretches the sport has ever seen. Now, San Antonio<\/a> is in an uphill battle. And OKC is partially a reason for that.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on OKC Thunder Wire: Wembanyama still trying to move on from emotional Game 7 win over OKC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even if they’re at Cancun, the Oklahoma City Thunder have had an influence on how the 2026 NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6,1220,11,191,179,969,474,2594,693],"class_list":["post-754514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-playoffs","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-the-spurs","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116706501198781923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754514","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=754514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}