{"id":42116,"date":"2026-05-08T04:51:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-play-offs-victor-wembanyama-shines-as-san-antonio-spurs-and-new-york-knicks-win\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:51:43","slug":"nba-play-offs-victor-wembanyama-shines-as-san-antonio-spurs-and-new-york-knicks-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-play-offs-victor-wembanyama-shines-as-san-antonio-spurs-and-new-york-knicks-win\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA play-offs: Victor Wembanyama shines as San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Victor Wembanyama shone as the San Antonio Spurs drew level in the NBA&#8217;s Conference semi-finals while the New York Knicks edged into a 2-0 lead.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Spurs are seeded second in the Western Conference and bounced back from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/ce3pnvpyxnro\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">home loss in game one<\/a> to thump the Minnesota Timberwolves 133-95 on Wednesday and level the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m expecting this kind of response from myself, from my team-mates, so I&#8217;m not surprised by any means,&#8221; said Wembanyama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The France international added: &#8220;There is some ego. They assaulted us in game one, we wanted to assault [them] in game two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This season&#8217;s defensive player of the year claimed 19 points and 15 rebounds as the Spurs romped into a 59-35 lead by half-time &#8211; Minnesota&#8217;s lowest-scoring half all season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was San Antonio&#8217;s highest NBA play-off score since 1983 and they have not lost back-to-back games since 11 and 13 January, a stretch of 49 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jalen Brunson led a late charge as the Knicks, third seed in the Eastern Conference,  clinched a 108-102 home win over the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Philadelphia&#8217;s Joel Embiid was ruled out hours before tip-off because of right hip soreness and a right ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game featured 25 lead changes &#8211; the most for a play-off game in 11 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brunson scored eight of his 26 points in the fourth quarter as the Knicks pulled clear while Karl-Anthony Towns added 20 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tyrese Maxey scored a team-high 26 points for the 76ers, who hope Embiid can recover in time for game three in Philadelphia on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cn7pvej7xmzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Wembanyama shone as the San Antonio Spurs drew level in the NBA&#8217;s Conference semi-finals while the New York Knicks edged into a 2-0 lead. The Spurs are seeded second in the Western Conference and bounced back from a home loss in game one to thump the Minnesota Timberwolves 133-95 on Wednesday and level the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42118,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42116\/revisions\/42118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}