Why Spurs’ Devin Vassell isn’t satisfied with just making it to NBA Finals vs. Knicks

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Why Spurs’ Devin Vassell isn’t satisfied with just making it to NBA Finals vs. Knicks

Hector Ledesma, ClutchPoints · ClutchPoints

Wed, Jun 3, 2026 ·

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The San Antonio Spurs may naturally lose a certain edge when they face the New York Knicks in the NBA Finals. Given their youth, the fact that they long ago surpassed expectations, and the celebration of beating the defending-champion Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, it's not hard to conclude that.

ClutchPoints asked Spurs standout Devin Vassell when the team's mindset shifted from the celebration over beating OKC to the focus on NYC.

"I think next day, honestly. Plane ride, we were all excited. But we didn't get here to say, we're the Western Conference Finals champions. We want to sit here and say we're the NBA champions, we won the Finals. It was great while it lasted, but we're ready for the next chapter," the Spurs swing man responded.

Supporting Spurs Coach Mitch Johnson's description that Vassell may be the team's most consistent player in the playoffs, the sixth-year pro has averaged 13 points and nearly five rebounds per game in the postseason. Maybe more importantly, though, he's played outstanding defense, providing some of the playoffs' biggest defensive highlights.

It's proven quite the tenure for Vassell, who arrived in San Antonio as a lottery pick in 2020. Among the Spurs' top two scorers for the better part of the three previous seasons, the former Florida State Seminole is enjoying his first winning season.

Given that, ClutchPoints asked Vassell about the balance of reaching the Finals versus the realization that there's more at stake.

"Just being here, being through the process, not skipping any steps. It's definitely been a long process, and I'm definitely grateful to be in this room, to be in this position. To be here is a blessing. But we're not satisfied. We want to win it all," the 6-foot-5 wing responded.

Devin Vassell downplays experience

Vassell not only belittled the Spurs' lack of experience previously in these NBA playoffs, he flat-out anointed it irrelevant, declaring "Experience does not matter," following a Game 4 victory vs. the Thunder that tied the WCF.

Noticing that the attention paid to their youth and their lack of reps this deep into the playoffs , ClutchPoints asked Vassell if his Spurs are using the critique as motivation.

"Honestly, we're just trying to block out all the noise. We've heard it all year and this and that, but we're here now, so there's nothing more for us to say or talk about or to think about," the native of Suwanee, Georgia, which is right by Atlanta , answered.

Along with the longest-tenured Spur, Keldon Johnson , who's in his seventh year with the team, and an early 20s core led by Victor Wembanyama , Vassell is focused on what the team has been doing as the key to a title for what would prove one of the youngest champions ever .

"We're just going to keep doing what we're doing, and that's been successful for us. So just staying on it, staying on the same thing that we've been doing and not trying to overthink it, because we're here for a reason."

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