home loss in game one<\/a> to thump the Minnesota Timberwolves 133-95 on Wednesday and level the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n“I’m expecting this kind of response from myself, from my team-mates, so I’m not surprised by any means,” said Wembanyama.<\/p>\n
The France international added: “There is some ego. They assaulted us in game one, we wanted to assault [them] in game two.”<\/p>\n
This season’s defensive player of the year claimed 19 points and 15 rebounds as the Spurs romped into a 59-35 lead by half-time – Minnesota’s lowest-scoring half all season.<\/p>\n
It was San Antonio’s highest NBA play-off score since 1983 and they have not lost back-to-back games since 11 and 13 January, a stretch of 49 games.<\/p>\n
Jalen Brunson led a late charge as the Knicks, third seed in the Eastern Conference, clinched a 108-102 home win over the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid was ruled out hours before tip-off because of right hip soreness and a right ankle sprain.<\/p>\n
The game featured 25 lead changes – the most for a play-off game in 11 years.<\/p>\n
Brunson scored eight of his 26 points in the fourth quarter as the Knicks pulled clear while Karl-Anthony Towns added 20 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Tyrese Maxey scored a team-high 26 points for the 76ers, who hope Embiid can recover in time for game three in Philadelphia on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama shone as the San Antonio Spurs drew level in the NBA’s Conference semi-finals while the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-628444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}