{"id":73910,"date":"2026-05-23T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/wembanyama-i-need-to-be-more-of-a-team-player-after-spurs-fall-behind-in-west-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:56:10","slug":"wembanyama-i-need-to-be-more-of-a-team-player-after-spurs-fall-behind-in-west-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/wembanyama-i-need-to-be-more-of-a-team-player-after-spurs-fall-behind-in-west-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama: \u2018I need to be more of a team player\u2019 after Spurs fall behind in West finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Oklahoma City Thunder 123-108 San Antonio Spurs<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>San Antonio trail 2-1 in playoff series<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander leads OKC with 26 points<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 26 points and 12 assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder climbed out of a 15-point hole minutes into the game to beat the host San Antonio Spurs 123-108 on Friday night and take a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City\u2019s bench outscored San Antonio\u2019s 76-23, including 15 points by Alex Caruso. Victor Wembanyama had 26 points for San Antonio. Devin Vassell added 20 and De\u2019Aaron Fox had 15 in his series debut.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/23\/san-antonio-spurs-oklahoma-city-thunder-nba-playoffs-victor-wembanyama\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City Thunder 123-108 San Antonio Spurs San Antonio trail 2-1 in playoff series Gilgeous-Alexander leads OKC with 26 points Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 26 points and 12 assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder climbed out of a 15-point hole minutes into the game to beat the host San Antonio Spurs 123-108 on Friday night and &#8230; <a title=\"Wembanyama: \u2018I need to be more of a team player\u2019 after Spurs fall behind in West finals\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/wembanyama-i-need-to-be-more-of-a-team-player-after-spurs-fall-behind-in-west-finals\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wembanyama: \u2018I need to be more of a team player\u2019 after Spurs fall behind in West finals\">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-73910","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\/73910","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=73910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}