{"id":760992,"date":"2026-06-14T17:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/760992\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:12:19","slug":"mitch-johnson-had-a-brutally-honest-take-on-the-spurs-nba-finals-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/760992\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Johnson had a brutally honest take on the Spurs&#8217; NBA Finals loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">San Antonio Spurs<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-team=\"20000024\" data-name=\"San Antonio Spurs\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"San Antonio Spurs\"><\/a> coach Mitch Johnson did not mince words about his team\u2019s shortcomings following their loss in the NBA Finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johnson admitted after the Spurs\u2019 94-90 loss in Game 5 that his team simply had not been ready to win a title, and that it showed through how the five games played out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe weren\u2019t ready to win an NBA championship. The better team won,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe did a lot of good things, but we didn\u2019t finish the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We weren&#8217;t ready to win an NBA championship\u2026 We did a lot of good things and we didn&#8217;t finish the job. That&#8217;s what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Mitch Johnson on the Spurs\u2019 collapses in the Finals \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@NBA<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LadqfdTb49\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/LadqfdTb49<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ClutchPoints\/status\/2066156356433060131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 14, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s hard to argue with Johnson\u2019s conclusion. The Spurs led by double-digits at one point in all five games of the series, only to lose four of them. The most prominent of those is the infamous 29-point blown lead in Game 4 that will haunt San Antonio for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One can certainly blame Johnson, at least in part, for that lack of readiness. He made <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/spurs-coach-mitch-johnson-slammed-decision\/757095\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some questionable decisions in multiple games<\/a>, and did not seem to know how to stem the tide when the Knicks made their inevitable fourth quarter runs. By the fourth quarter of Game 5, a Knicks comeback felt almost inevitable, and Johnson still couldn\u2019t lift his team to stop it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is little doubt that Johnson will be back next season. Spurs fans will hope he and his team learned some lessons from what happened over the course of the series.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs coach Mitch Johnson did not mince words about his team\u2019s shortcomings following their loss in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,3361,6,56381,678,207,3817],"class_list":["post-760992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-76ers","tag-76ers","tag-basketball","tag-mitch-johnson","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia76ers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116749581946140923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760992","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=760992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}