{"id":74061,"date":"2026-05-27T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/nba-playoffs-thunder-one-win-from-finals-as-wembanyama-and-spurs-go-quiet-in-game-5\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:05:04","slug":"nba-playoffs-thunder-one-win-from-finals-as-wembanyama-and-spurs-go-quiet-in-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/nba-playoffs-thunder-one-win-from-finals-as-wembanyama-and-spurs-go-quiet-in-game-5\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs: Thunder one win from finals as Wembanyama and Spurs go quiet in Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scores 32 points in victory<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>OKC lead best-of-seven series 3-2 after 127-114 win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander did not like the way he started on Tuesday night, but the Oklahoma City Thunder star came up big in the second and third quarters \u2013 with plenty of help from the cast around him \u2013 as the Thunder beat the San Antonio Spurs 127-114 to take a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought we were first to the fight tonight on both ends and I thought we weren\u2019t the other night,\u201d Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. \u201cI just loved the way we approached tonight on both ends of the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/27\/nba-playoffs-thunder-one-win-from-finals-as-wembanyama-and-spurs-go-quiet-in-game-5\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scores 32 points in victory OKC lead best-of-seven series 3-2 after 127-114 win Shai Gilgeous-Alexander did not like the way he started on Tuesday night, but the Oklahoma City Thunder star came up big in the second and third quarters \u2013 with plenty of help from the cast around him \u2013 as the &#8230; <a title=\"NBA playoffs: Thunder one win from finals as Wembanyama and Spurs go quiet in Game 5\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/nba-playoffs-thunder-one-win-from-finals-as-wembanyama-and-spurs-go-quiet-in-game-5\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA playoffs: Thunder one win from finals as Wembanyama and Spurs go quiet in Game 5\">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-74061","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\/74061","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=74061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}