The last time the Oklahoma City Thunder featured in Game 7 was the ultimate decider of last season’s NBA Championship. Now, they do the same tonight against Victor Wembanyama’s San Antonio Spurs, Yankee Scores reports.
The two-time Most Valuable Player of the season, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, spoke about the Game 7 contest against the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night to decide the Western Conference final winner, saying it is the “biggest game of my career.”
“It’s the next game,” he quickly added. “And if I lose, my season’s over.”
The winner will go to play the New York Knicks starting on Wednesday night, while the loser watches from the couch. This is Spurs star Victor Wembanyama will be making his maiden appearance on the Game 7 stage.
“I know there’ll be a lot of added attention, a lot of eyes watching,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “It’ll be a hostile environment, but we’ve been saying this for a long time: We’ve had a lot of firsts. This one will be a little bit more important or higher-stakes than all the others. That’s the goal as you keep playing and the season gets longer.”
This will be the second time in NBA history that two teams that won 62 games or more in the regular season would meet in a Game 7. The last time that happened was in 1981, when Philadelphia lost to Boston 91-90 to win the Eastern Conference title.
