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The Spurs and Thunder have already met 3 times thus far this season, with all three video games gained by the Spurs—a 111-109 victory in OKC on December 13, and a back-to-back residence and street sequence on December 23-25 with the Spurs successful each video games by double digits. The Spurs have struggled a bit because the Christmas Day matchup, with the Spurs going 4-5 whereas the Thunder are 7-2 over the identical stretch, solely dropping to the Suns and Hornets. OKC had some shut video games in that streak, beating the Jazz in additional time and squeaking out a one level win over the Grizzlies on Friday night time, in order that they have been extra weak than they have been originally of the season, after they Thunder have been simply blowing each opponent out of the water. Perhaps I ought to have mentioned out of the sector, since there’s no water in Oklahoma [just a slight exaggeration]. The Spurs will face the Thunder another time after tonight, on February 4 on the Frost Financial institution Heart.
The Spurs have virtually everybody accessible tonight, aside from Devin Vassell, who remains to be recovering from an adductor pressure. That’s been an enormous difficulty for the Spurs, who’ve struggled to seek out their outdoors shot with out the specter of Devin taking his standard assortment of inauspicious pictures and pulling the protection out of the paint. Vassell has been a bit of cold and warm recently, however that’s nonetheless an enormous improve from the remainder of the roster, which has been chilly and chilly for a couple of month. Isaiah Hartenstein is out for OKC, and that needs to be auspicious for the Silver and Black, who’ve had troubles together with his bodily play within the earlier video games. The matchup of Victor Wembanyama towards Chet Holmgren favors San Antonio, and Victor might have an enormous night time. Luguentz Dort is out tonight, which actually is a little bit of aid for the Spurs since he tends of falling awkwardly on opposing gamers legs when he will get beat on protection, which creates some harmful conditions that might end in accidents. Hopefully, Jeremy Sochan can get some run tonight because the Spurs might use his defensive depth.
It’s an ideal alternative for the Spurs to run up their head-to-head file to 4-0 and reclaim the initiative as they compete for high seeding within the west. The midway level within the season is simply a sport away, and tonight can be a good time to make an announcement. Let’s GOOO SPURS!!!
Mark Daigneault will take away two vowels from his final identify after the sport. As he explains, “It’s simply too onerous to spell.”
San Antonio Spurs at Oklahoma ThunderJanuary 13, 2026 | 7:00 PM CT Streaming: PeacockTV: NBC/PeacockReminder: It’s towards web site coverage to submit hyperlinks to unlawful streams within the feedback.
