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Spurs HC Mitch Johnson’s Victor Wembanyama take after Game 1 is hard to deny
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Victor Wembanyama just put up the best game of his brief NBA career thus far in Game 1 of the San Antonio Spurs ’ Western Conference Finals clash against the Oklahoma City Thunder . Wembanyama was a major force , recording 41 points, 24 rebounds, and three blocks to lead the way for San Antonio in their 122-115 victory in double overtime.
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This is exactly the sort of game that makes it difficult to remember that Wembanyama is only 22 years of age. He has such a long career ahead of him, and yet here he is, dominating his peers who are much more experienced than him.
And it’s clear that Wembanyama is going to lead the Spurs to bigger and better things; even if San Antonio were to come up short this season, it’s become clear that their best player is a big game player — a riser who steps up to the plate and hits home runs exactly when his team needs him to.
“He has a rare desire to step into every moment that’s in front of him. He has some rare God given ability,” Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson said in his postgame presser, via Oh No He Didn’t on X (formerly Twitter).
This could not have been more obvious than when Wembanyama hit the three that tied the game in the dying seconds of the first overtime period.
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It looked as though the Thunder were going to be able to protect home court despite Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s struggles in his MVP coronation night, but Wembanyama, with around 35 seconds to go and the Spurs down three, pulled up from well beyond the three-point line to even up the game and eventually send it to a second extra period.
Wembanyama is being put in a trial by fire, but the Spurs star is passing that test with flying colors.
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