Published
Jun 14, 2026 at 04:04 PM EDT
Victor Wembanyama believes the San Antonio Spurs beat themselves rather than the New York Knicks winning the title after taking Game 5 of the NBA Finals in San Antonio on Saturday night, going as far as to suggest the Spurs “dominated” most of the series.
“The margin of error is very thin. Our domination stints are absolute. We absolutely dominated for most of the series,” he said after the game.
“But our errors, our mistakes, are punished so hard that we can’t have ups and downs like this. So much, you know. The ups are okay. The downs is the reason we lost.”
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Wembanyama isn’t exactly wrong.
San Antonio held 14-point leads in each of the first two games of the series, a 12-point lead in Game 3, a 29-point lead in Game 4 and a 15-point lead in Game 5. The Spurs led for 74% of the entire series, but fell to the Knicks in just five games after San Antonio found a way to throw several games away with costly mistakes.
In the final game of the season, Wembanyama scored 19 points with 14 rebounds while shooting 7 of 19 from the field.
The former No. 1 overall pick and NBA Defensive Player of the Year in just his third season.
He averaged 26 points, 11.2 rebounds and 3.6 blocks in the finals.
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