Paul Pierce knows a thing or two about superstar basketball players, and he has now dropped a big claim about San Antonio Spurs sensation Victor Wembanyama.
I’ve spent most of this current playoff run trying to reacclimate to this environment. I should be used to this, right? I’m a veteran Spurs fan. This is a franchise that made the playoffs for 22 consecutive years.
Rookies are exciting for teams and their fans because they represent potential, hope for the future. While it can take years to see how a prospect will pan out, sometimes it clicks right away.
Gregg Popovich has a reputation for getting the most out of his players. What he did with DeMar DeRozan might be one of his more underrated jobs. When the San Antonio Spurs acquired DeRozan in the 2018 Kawhi Leonard trade, most of the league saw a high-volume scorer with a defined ceiling.
San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama found extra motivation for Game 5 after a meaningful interaction with Gregg Popovich. The 22-year-old erupted for 27 points, 17 rebounds and three blocks to lead the Spurs to a dominant 126-97 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves at Frost Bank Center.
Aside from an increasingly irritating stretch of play that ran from roughly three minutes into the second quarter through the first five minutes of the third (during which the Spurs’ 18-point lead evaporated to zero), this game was exactly the tonic I was hoping for.
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Victor Wembanyama was ejected for the first time in his career during Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Victor Wembanyama was wary of any traps being set by the Minnesota Timberwolves during Tuesday’s Game 5 tussle. The San Antonio Spurs superstar kept his cool amid a heated Western Conference semifinals matchup at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas.
The San Antonio Spurs knew that they were in for a physical combat with the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 5 of their second-round series at Frost Bank Center on Tuesday.
Keldon Johnson played a pivotal role in the San Antonio Spurs’ blowout win in Game 5 against the Minnesota Timberwolves at Frost Bank Center on Tuesday.
Victor Wembanyama was ejected early after committing a flagrant-two foul early in the San Antonio Spurs' Game 4 loss. In Game 5, Wembanyama bounced back.
The San Antonio Spurs added rookie Dylan Harper to their injury report, listing him as questionable for Tuesday's Game 5 of the Western Conference second-round series against the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves.
Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox has been listed as questionable for Tuesday’s Game 5 against the Wolves, tweets Jared Weiss of The Athletic Fox’s injury designation has actually changed over the past few hours.