{"id":36593,"date":"2025-12-15T01:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-cup-victor-wembanyama-returns-as-san-antionio-spurs-beat-oklahoma-city-thunder\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T01:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:29:17","slug":"nba-cup-victor-wembanyama-returns-as-san-antionio-spurs-beat-oklahoma-city-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-cup-victor-wembanyama-returns-as-san-antionio-spurs-beat-oklahoma-city-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Cup: Victor Wembanyama returns as San Antionio Spurs beat Oklahoma City Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The NBA Cup is the competition’s annual in-season tournament, with all matches except the final also counting towards the regular season standings.<\/p>\n

The Thunder were beaten in last year’s final by the Milwaukee Bucks and had a 16-game winning run ended by the Spurs as they exited this season’s competition.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City had equalled the best 25-game start to a season<\/a> when they went 24-1 by beating the Phoenix Suns in the quarter-finals, but they have now made the second best start to a campaign after 26 games as the Golden State Warriors were 25-1 at the same stage in 2015-16.<\/p>\n

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the NBA’s reigning Most Valuable Player, top scored for the Thunder against the Spurs with a game-high 29 points.<\/p>\n

San Antonio will play the New York Knicks in the final after they beat the Orlando Magic 132-120.<\/p>\n

Jalen Brunson scored a season-high 40 points to inspire the Knicks to victory, while team-mate Karl-Anthony Towns added 29 points. <\/p>\n

“We came out here and did exactly what we said we wanted to do, which was play Knicks basketball,” said Towns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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