Spurs-Thunder Game 7 predictions! Who wins epic clash with NBA Finals on the line?

Spurs vs. Thunder. Wemby vs. SGA. Game 7. Of course.

The thrilling Western Conference finals between San Antonio and Oklahoma City, featuring two of the game’s brightest stars, will be decided on Saturday (8 p.m. ET, NBC/Peacock) with one team advancing to the 2026 NBA Finals, where the New York Knicks await.

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Will Victor Wembanyama meet the moment in his first-ever Game 7? Will two-time MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander lead OKC to back-to-back Finals? Our writers weigh in with their Game 7 predictions.

What’s your take on Spurs-Thunder ahead of Game 7?

Steve Jones: This is one of the most tremendous back-and-forth playoff series we have seen in a while. If you point to the blowout nature of the games, you forget how these teams got here. This has been a series of runs, with each team working to swing back until the other beats it into submission. No one has grabbed control of this series. Will Victor Wembanyama be assertive? Will Shai Gilgeous-Alexander make the shots that affect the Spurs’ defense? Will the OKC bench rise to the occasion? Will the Spurs guards hold up their end of the bargain on both ends? Will Chet Holmgren put his stamp on this series? There’s a tension, a feel that anything could happen. And now we get to see that in the ultimate setting.

Ben Rohrbach: We are watching the future of the league. Gilgeous-Alexander’s Thunder are vying for the first back-to-back championships in almost a decade, and Wembanyama’s Spurs, if they were to win the whole thing, might have a stranglehold on the NBA for some time. Given the youth and depth of both rosters, these two teams should compete for Western Conference supremacy — and titles — for another decade, or at least into the 2030s.

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Dan Devine: The story of this series is how San Antonio’s point-of-attack armada, combined with Wembanyama’s perpetual back-line menace, has effectively broken OKC’s half-court offense. (Or, if not outright fractured, then at least severely sprained it.) During the regular season, the Thunder scored 102.5 points per 100 half-court plays — the third-best attack in the NBA. Through the…

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Author : Yahoo Sports Staff

Publish date : 2026-05-29 22:52:00

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