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Victor Wembanyama scored 28 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, lifting nan San Antonio Spurs to a 118-91 location triumph complete nan Oklahoma City Thunder connected Thursday successful Game 6 of nan Western Conference finals.
The teams will play 1 past clip successful Game 7 connected Saturday successful Oklahoma City, pinch nan victor advancing to look nan New York Knicks successful nan NBA finals.
After nan Thunder’s 127-114 triumph successful Game 5 connected Tuesday, erstwhile Wembanyama had 20 points and six rebounds, Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said his squad needed much from their superstar.
It didn’t return agelong for Wembanyama to show a quality from Game 5. He sank 2 three-pointers and blocked a changeable successful nan game’s first 90 seconds arsenic San Antonio jumped successful beforehand early and ne'er trailed.
The Spurs led by 15 early successful nan 2nd quarter, but nan Thunder closed nan shortage to 5 conscionable earlier halftime earlier going into nan break trailing by seven.
San Antonio ratcheted up their defense precocious successful nan 3rd and put together a 20-0 tally to put nan crippled distant by nan extremity of nan quarter.
The Thunder missed 14 consecutive shots, going astir 8 minutes betwixt points.
Oklahoma City scored conscionable 13 third-quarter points, their fewest successful a 4th this season.
With nan crippled retired of scope aft 3 quarters, Oklahoma City coach Mark Daigneault sat Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein successful nan 4th quarter.
Gilgeous-Alexander vanished pinch a squad precocious of conscionable 15 points connected 6-of-18 shooting. It was Gilgeous-Alexander’s lowest-scoring output since he scored 14 successful Game 3 of past season’s Western Conference finals against nan Minnesota Timberwolves.
Dylan Harper scored 18 points disconnected nan chair for San Antonio while Stephon Castle added 17 points and 9 assists pinch conscionable 1 turnover.
While nan Thunder’s chair has dominated nan Spurs’ for overmuch of nan series, San Antonio’s reserves outscored Oklahoma City’s 46-38 successful Game 6.
The Spurs sewage going early pinch a barrage from beyond nan arc.
San Antonio deed 8 first-quarter three-pointers, 3 from Wembanyama.
The Thunder were conscionable 1 of 6 from beyond nan arc successful nan first.
Oklahoma City’s Jalen Williams returned aft missing nan erstwhile 3 games pinch a hamstring strain, but he played conscionable 10 minutes, scoring 1 point. He came disconnected nan chair for nan first clip since 10 December 2022, during his rookie season.
