The road to the NBA Finals starts now.<\/p>\n
No, like maybe right now.<\/p>\n
Because while the 2026-27 season is just starting, it’s already pitting last season’s two wins leaders\u2014and Western Conference finalists\u2014against one another. The last time the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs locked horns, it took all seven games to crown a winner.<\/p>\n
The Spurs took that round, thanks in no small part to the heroic hooping of Victor Wembanyama and his decided advantage over counterpart Chet Holmgren. The Thunder, of course, didn’t have a healthy Jalen Williams for that series, but the Spurs also didn’t have the life lessons their young core learned along the way to their ahead-of-schedule Finals trek.<\/p>\n
San Antonio also hadn’t fully leaned into the new three-guard lineup that now comprises 60 percent of its starting five. Those guards\u2014De’Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper\u2014might also be opening with the hardest test they’ll ever draw given OKC’s wealth of ready, willing and fully able stable of perimeter stoppers.<\/p>\n
This could be an instant classic, so stay tuned for all of the top moments, highlights and reactions throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The road to the NBA Finals starts now. No, like maybe right now. Because while the 2026-27 season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-472187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472187","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=472187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}