Wembanyama powers Spurs to Game 7 with dominant Game 6 win
Wembanyama hit San Antonio’s first three 3s and finished with 28 points as the Spurs blew out Oklahoma City to force a winner-take-all Game 7.
Victor Wembanyama turned Game 6 into a reset button, and the Spurs turned a 3-2 series hole into a decisive rematch. San Antonio rolled past Oklahoma City 118-91 on Thursday night at Frost Bank Center, forcing a winner-take-all Game 7 in the Western Conference finals on Saturday in Oklahoma City. The winner will advance to the NBA Finals to face the New York Knicks.
The adjustment started early and never loosened. Wembanyama hit his first three 3-point attempts, then finished with 28 points, 10 rebounds, 3 blocks, 2 assists and 2 steals in 28 minutes, 25 seconds. He shot 10-of-21 overall and 4-of-9 from beyond the arc, while the Spurs led wire-to-wire and were up 35-22 after the first quarter. Devin Vassell helped San Antonio establish that early edge, and the Thunder never found a response.
Just as important, San Antonio changed the terms of the series at the point of attack. Oklahoma City entered Game 6 with the advantage after a 127-114 Game 5 win on Tuesday, when Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 32 points and Jared McCain made his first career playoff start with 20. In Game 6, Gilgeous-Alexander was held to 15 points, his season low, and the Thunder offense had far less room to breathe against a Spurs defense that played with far more urgency than it had in Game 5.
That swing followed another Spurs response two nights earlier, when Wembanyama scored 33 points in a 103-82 Game 4 victory that evened the series. The back-and-forth run has made this matchup less about momentum than adaptation, with each side forced to answer the last move. Wembanyama even arrived pregame in an Eid al-Adha robe before delivering the kind of performance that can alter a playoff series on both ends of the floor.
Game 7 now becomes a test of stars, coaching and nerve. Oklahoma City will try to regroup around Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren at home, while San Antonio carries the pressure of knowing Wembanyama can bend a game, and maybe a series, whenever the Spurs get him involved early and let his range and rim protection reshape the floor.
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