The 2025-26 season is behind us, and each one is trying ahead to 2026-27, the place the Spurs would be the reigning Western Convention Champions with one thing to show after a disappointing Finals look. However we are able to nonetheless take a fast second to look again after the NBA launched the Performs of the 12 months from final season, as voted by the followers.
Stephon Citadel and Luke Kornet each managed to beat out their teammate Victor Wembanyama at arguably his greatest strengths, profitable Dunk of the 12 months and Block of the 12 months, respectively. Citadel’s fan-favorite dunk got here in Recreation 2 of the Convention Finals towards the Thunder (which they admittedly misplaced), when he acquired a move from Wemby on the prime of the arc and drove straight down the paint for the tomahawk slam over seven-footer Isaiah Hartenstein. Replays present he acquired the ball as excessive as the highest of the backboard sq., which is kind of some hops for a 6’5” dude. (Coincidently or not, this was additionally the sport the place Hartenstein later yanked Citadel down after pulling or getting his fingers tangled in his hair — you be the decide.)
Kornet’s block got here in Recreation 7 of the identical sequence and helped clinch a visit to the Finals for the Spurs. Clinging to a precarious six-point lead early within the fourth quarter and Wemby sitting with 5 fouls, Kornet chased down Hartenstein after a steal and blocked his breakaway lay-up try, sucking the life out of the Thunder crowd as they made a final ditch effort to return again. The play stopped a momentum swing that was constructing for OKC, and the Spurs held on the remainder of the way in which.
Different winners embody Nikola Jokic for Help of the 12 months, Luka Doncic for greatest Handles, Bam Adebayo for greatest Efficiency (I’m skeptical contemplating the circumstances of his 83-point recreation, however he can have his flowers), OG Anunoby for Clutch Play of the 12 months (ugh, everyone knows what that was), and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander for greatest…Drip? (I assume that’s wardrobe, appropriate me if I’m mistaken, Gen Z Pounders. That slang isn’t a part of my Millennial vocabulary.)
Do you agree with the followers votes? Do you may have different performs that had your vote, be it from the Spurs or in any other case?
