{"id":73719,"date":"2026-05-19T06:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/wembanyamas-41-24-double-double-silences-thunder-in-west-finals-the-best-player-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:56:06","slug":"wembanyamas-41-24-double-double-silences-thunder-in-west-finals-the-best-player-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/wembanyamas-41-24-double-double-silences-thunder-in-west-finals-the-best-player-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama\u2019s 41-24 double-double silences Thunder in West finals: \u2018The best player in the world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>San Antonio Spurs 122-115 Oklahoma City Thunder (2OT)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Spurs take Game 1 of best-of-seven series<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Victor Wembanyama had 41 points and 24 rebounds, Dylan Harper finished with 24 points and a team playoff-record seven steals, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 122-115 in a double-overtime classic to open the Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama sealed Monday night\u2019s game with a pair of dunks in the final minute, one of them leading to a three-point play as the Spurs stole home-court advantage and beat the Thunder for the fifth time in six meetings this season.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/19\/victor-wembanyama-spurs-thunder-western-conference-finals-nba-playoffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio Spurs 122-115 Oklahoma City Thunder (2OT) Spurs take Game 1 of best-of-seven series Victor Wembanyama had 41 points and 24 rebounds, Dylan Harper finished with 24 points and a team playoff-record seven steals, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 122-115 in a double-overtime classic to open the Western Conference &#8230; <a title=\"Wembanyama\u2019s 41-24 double-double silences Thunder in West finals: \u2018The best player in the world\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/wembanyamas-41-24-double-double-silences-thunder-in-west-finals-the-best-player-in-the-world\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wembanyama\u2019s 41-24 double-double silences Thunder in West finals: \u2018The best player in the world\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}