Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs are headed to the final of the NBA Cup in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. They are bringing some familiar faces with them to T-Mobile Arena.
LAS VEGAS — It is always hard to drop everything you’ve been through over a handful of years and move on to something new. That is what San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet has experienced over the last six months, as he departed the Boston Celtics— with whom he had won a championship in 2024—to embark on a new journey.
As Dylan Harper gazed at the San Antonio Spurs’ five championship banners, his eyes lit up as if he were a kid waking up on Christmas morning and seeing his presents under the tree.
Christmas and the NBA go hand-in-hand. The day serves for the top hoops league in the world, like Thanksgiving for the NFL. However, while the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys are perpetual Thanksgiving participants, the NBA has mixed up the matchups and the teams throughout the years.
When the San Antonio Spurs won the 2023 NBA Draft Lottery, the reaction around the league was instant. They landed a new phenom with an underrated basketball
LAS VEGAS — The NBA Cup was supposed to be a midseason curiosity, a made-for-TV experiment designed to juice December basketball and give fans something shiny to argue about before Christmas.
The San Antonio Spurs upset the Oklahoma City Thunder in the semifinals of the NBA Cup last week, and Victor Wembanyama followed it up with a standout interview that appeared to throw shade at the way the defending champions play basketball.
The Spurs are in the middle of a fantastic stretch. They have not only won 10 of their last 13 games, but also gotten Stephon Castle and Victor Wembanyama back, and defeated the Thunder to reach the Emirates NBA Cup championship game against the Knicks.
LAS VEGAS — The Spurs and Knicks meet Tuesday night in Las Vegas for the NBA Cup final. The league will crown a first-time champion. That alone gives the game weight.
Victor Wembanyama made his return to the San Antonio Spurs lineup on Saturday night, and he helped make one thing abundantly clear — you'd better start taking that team seriously as a Western Conference contender. If you were not already.
The Spurs have signed guard Kyle Mangas to a two-way contract, according to NBA.com’s transaction log. Two-way forward Riley Minix was waived in order to make room on the roster for Mangas, Michael Scotto of HoopsHype reports (via Twitter).