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Latest Sporzzio coverage, playoff reads, and explainers about the San Antonio Spurs.
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France made Victor Wembanyama its captain because it views the 22-year-old Spurs star as both its best player and long-term standard-setter. The immediate test is a four-game August stretch featuring two Serbia exhibitions followed by two 2027 World Cup qualifiers.
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The 2026-27 NBA season begins October 20 with an NBC and Peacock tripleheader and ends April 11. Here are the biggest games, broadcast details and the reason each team initially has only 80 assigned matchups.
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The 2026 NBA Cup begins October 30, sends eight teams to single-elimination play and ends December 11 at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Here are the groups, national TV schedule, tiebreakers and impact on the 82-game season.
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The 2026 NBA Christmas schedule features five games on ABC and ESPN, beginning with a Spurs-Knicks Finals rematch and including LeBron James’ first scheduled trip back to Los Angeles as a 76er.
Team Pulse
Victor Wembanyama’s five-year extension secures San Antonio’s centerpiece while making its reported structure part of the Spurs’ long-term roster math.
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Dylan Harper looks like part of San Antonio's future, but the harder Spurs question is how his role fits the Fox-Castle-Harper backcourt math.
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The Spurs earned contender treatment by reaching the Finals, but the next test is whether their roster choices match a team trying to finish the job.
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San Antonio's offseason starts with whether the De'Aaron Fox decision clarifies the build or makes the next roster bet more expensive.
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Guard depth gives an NBA offense more ball-handling, cleaner second actions, and fewer late-clock possessions that depend on one star solving a loaded floor.
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The Spurs' Game 4 collapse should not become a teardown verdict, but it does set a harder pressure standard for their next playoff step.
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Home-court advantage matters in the NBA Finals, but Knicks-Spurs Game 3 showed crowd energy is leverage, not protection from matchup problems.
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Opponents cannot defend Wembanyama with one clean answer. They have to choose which concession hurts least.
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NBA playoff rotations change after an injury because the missing player’s jobs have to be redistributed, not because the bench simply absorbs the same minutes.
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The Spurs have earned contender standards earlier than expected. That does not mean every pressure question around Wembanyama is already settled.
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Secondary shot creation matters because playoff defenses can stop the first action and force somebody else to keep the possession alive before the clock wins.
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The Knicks-Spurs Finals turns a simple tactics question into a live one: make Wembanyama defend space before he defends the rim.