Victor Wembanyama still isn’t eager to reopen the wound from the San Antonio Spurs’ NBA Finals loss to the New York Knicks.
Nearly five months after the series ended, the Spurs center is reportedly still avoiding talk about the championship defeat, even with the new season already underway. French basketball reporter Maxine Aubin said that conversations with Wembanyama’s representatives made one thing clear: the Finals remain a painful subject.
“I talked to his people, to his agents, and they said basically he does not want to talk about the finals,” Aubin said in remarks shared by NBABase.
“From what I understand now, this is still something that hurts him, what happened in the finals. He does not really want to talk about it yet.”
That reaction makes sense after the way the series unfolded. San Antonio lost the 2026 championship in five games, even with Wembanyama putting up 26 points, 11.2 rebounds, and 3.6 blocks per game.
The Spurs also let multiple double-digit leads slip away, and Game 4 was the most brutal of all. New York erased a 29-point deficit in that one, then stole a 107-106 win.
Wembanyama had already admitted the aftermath was rough. At September’s media day, he said those difficult nights were part of what he had to work through.
Still, staying quiet about the Finals doesn’t mean he’s stopped taking something from it. Wembanyama has kept working on his game while helping San Antonio get ready for another run.
For the Spurs, the task now is simple to say and hard to do: turn last season’s heartbreak into something useful without letting it define what comes next.
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