When you see a player answering questions cerebrally after a devastating loss, you know he will find solutions to it. He now understands what's needed to win at this level.
Victor Wembanyama on what he learnt about how hard it was to win the Finals against this Knicks team:
"One of the many things I learnt was that the margin of error is very very thin.
Our domination stints are absolute.
We absolutely dominated for most of the series, but our errors, our mistakes, are punished so hard that we can't have ups and downs like this so much..
The downs is the reason we lost.”
#GoSpursGo #PorVida
Spurs center Victor Wembanyama: “What I’m pissed about is there’s probably 100 games before we can be back in the Finals. ... I’m going to have to hold that inside of me and slow down and wait and execute for 100 games.”
Lowest Finals PPG average by a reigning Sixth Man of the Year:
Keldon Johnson - 4.4 PPG
Aaron McKie - 8.0 PPG (in 2001)
Bill Walton - 8.0 PPG (in 1986)
The New York Knicks win the 2026 NBA championship over the San Antonio Spurs, snapping a 53-year title drought.
A champion constructed with a series of moves over several years; notably Jalen Brunson, OG Anunoby, Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns, then hiring of Mike Brown.
Sure, you can this with Kobe w/o Shaq, and w/o Pau, he'd have 0 chips. Same with Mj, without Pip (and Phil) he'd have the career of a James Harden-ish..
Tim MacMahon says LeBron would also not win without Dwyane Wade, Kyrie Irving, and Anthony Davis in response to Rich Paul:
“If you unplug Dwyane Wade from the Miami Heat, LeBron doesn’t win titles there. If you unplug Kyrie from the Cavaliers, they don’t come back 3-1. If you unplug Anthony Davis from the bubble Lakers, they don’t win a championship.”