{"id":3491,"date":"2025-12-14T07:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:56:59","slug":"nba-cup-victor-wembanyama-returns-as-san-antionio-spurs-beat-oklahoma-city-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3491","title":{"rendered":"NBA Cup: Victor Wembanyama returns as San Antionio Spurs beat Oklahoma City Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NBA Cup is the competition&#8217;s annual in-season tournament, with all matches except the final also counting towards the regular season standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Thunder were beaten in last year&#8217;s final by the Milwaukee Bucks and had a 16-game winning run ended by the Spurs as they exited this season&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cdj8rpmrd98o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Oklahoma City had equalled the best 25-game start to a season<\/a> when they went 24-1 by beating the Phoenix Suns in the quarter-finals, but they have now made the second best start to a campaign after 26 games as the Golden State Warriors were 25-1 at the same stage in 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the NBA&#8217;s reigning Most Valuable Player, top scored for the Thunder against the Spurs with a game-high 29 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">San Antonio will play the New York Knicks in the final after they beat the Orlando Magic 132-120.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jalen Brunson scored a season-high 40 points to inspire the Knicks to victory, while team-mate Karl-Anthony Towns added 29 points.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We came out here and did exactly what we said we wanted to do, which was play Knicks basketball,&#8221; said Towns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c79xrvy5gqpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA Cup is the competition&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}