Victor Wembanyama continues to do the unthinkable. He led the Spurs to the Finals in his third season in the league and first postseason.
On Saturday, the Spurs defeated the Thunder 111–103 in Game 7 on the road to clinch the franchise’s first Western Conference title in 12 years. Wembanyama scored a team-high 22 points in the win and was named MVP of the conference finals.
The victory guarantees the NBA’s recent run of parity will continue, with its eighth different champion in eight seasons.
The Spurs will face the Knicks in the NBA Finals with Game 1 set for Wednesday at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio. Tipoff is slated for 8:30 pm ET on ABC.
It’s a rematch of the 1999 NBA Finals in which the eighth-seeded Knicks fell to the top-seeded Spurs in five games. The victory marked the beginning of the Spurs dynasty, the first of five titles the organization would win behind coach Gregg Popovich and star forward Tim Duncan.
