{"id":101329,"date":"2025-12-26T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101329\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:51:07","slug":"sga-concedes-san-antonio-spurs-are-better-than-defending-nba-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101329\/","title":{"rendered":"SGA concedes San Antonio Spurs are \u2018better\u2019 than defending NBA champs"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn\u2019t too long ago that the Oklahoma City Thunder were 24-1 and seemingly cruising toward a second straight NBA championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis team is going to win the Emirates Cup,\u201c David Dennis Jr. of Andscape said earlier this month<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019re probably going to win the [NBA] championship. They\u2019re going to win more than 73 games…<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be talking about the OKC Thunder as maybe the best single-season team that we have ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talk about a record scratch.<\/p>\n

Since then, the Thunder are 2-4 with three straight losses to the San Antonio Spurs, most recently 117-102 home loss on Christmas Day. <\/p>\n

The Spurs, featuring Victor Wembanyama, De\u2019Aaron Fox, Steph Castle and former Rutgers<\/a> star Dylan Harper, have won five straight and 8-of-9, with back-to-back wins over the reigning NBA champions in their last two games.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t lose to a team three times in a row in a short span without them being better than you,\u201d Shai Gilgeous-Alexander told reporters<\/a> after scoring 22 points in the loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we have to get better, we have to look in the mirror and that\u2019s everybody from top to bottom if we want to reach out ultimate goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The teams meet two more times during the regular season: Jan. 13 in Oklahoma City and Feb. 4 in San Antonio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn\u2019t too long ago that the Oklahoma City Thunder were 24-1 and seemingly cruising toward a second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42785,6382,82,84,83,1066],"class_list":["post-101329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-nba-cup","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}