{"id":656746,"date":"2026-05-21T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656746\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:29:09","slug":"former-uconn-star-shines-in-nba-western-conference-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656746\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UConn star shines in NBA Western Conference finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OKLAHOMA CITY (WFSB) &#8211; Stephon Castle was key piece of the University of Connecticut men\u2019s basketball team\u2019s 2023 NCAA Tournament title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now, he\u2019s a key piece of an NBA franchise with a shot advancing to the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Castle\u2019s talents were on display Wednesday night during game 2 of the Western Conference finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Thunder may have won the game 122-113 and tied the series 1-1, but Castle had perhaps the most viral moment of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The former Husky posterized the Thunder\u2019s Isaiah Hartenstein during the first half of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Castle finished with 25 points and 8 assists in the loss. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the Spurs 122-115 overtime win in Game 1, he pitched in with 17 points and 11 assists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Spurs and Thunder face off again in Game 3 on Friday at 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY (WFSB) &#8211; Stephon Castle was key piece of the University of Connecticut men\u2019s basketball team\u2019s 2023&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,6402,283090,2116,99,283088,283089,40552,283086,283087,283092,15857,69310,283091],"class_list":["post-656746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-san-antonio-oklahoma-city","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-spurs-dunk","tag-spurs-thunder","tag-stephon-castle","tag-stephon-castle-dunk","tag-stephon-castle-nba-dunk","tag-stephon-castle-uconn","tag-uconn","tag-western-conference-finals","tag-western-conference-finals-game-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656746","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=656746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}