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Locked On Celtics - Daily Podcast On The Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics Lessons from Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs NBA Finals Run

Locked On Celtics - Daily Podcast On The Boston Celtics

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

San Antonio Spurs edge Oklahoma City Thunder in a thrilling Game 7, raising big questions for the Boston Celtics’ championship blueprint. Can Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Derrick White deliver when it matters most—or do the Celtics need another elite shot creator to keep pace with Western Conference contenders? John Karalis of Celtics On SI spotlights the crucial difference-makers on both sides and why unexpected playoff heroes, like Payton Pritchard, have been missing for Boston. The conversation explores how the Spurs' depth, coaching patience, and Victor Wembanyama’s generational talent could shape the NBA’s future—and Boston’s offseason moves. Are the Celtics one “bucket getter” away, perhaps Anfernee Simons or Coby White, from title contention? Roster depth and trade exception strategy take center stage. Will patience or urgency define the Celtics’ quest for Banner 19?

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0:00.0

The San Antonio Spurs are going to the NBA finals.

0:04.0

What does that tell us about the Boston Celtics?

0:19.3

Hey, welcome back to the Lockdown Celtics podcast.

0:21.6

I am John Corrales.

0:22.9

Today we're talking about the Boston Celtics kind of in contrast to the Western

0:28.3

Conference Finals, not just the San Antonio Spurs, but the Oklahoma City Thunder.

0:32.6

I think there are a lot of things in the Western Conference Finals, especially,

0:36.3

that show us where the Celtics are,

0:38.3

where they need to be. So we're going to talk about that in today's show. We're going to be talking

0:42.5

about it with our guy, Tom Westerholm, everybody. What up? Tom. That was a heck of a game seven.

0:53.2

That was a lot of fun. i was on a i was on a date

0:58.0

night with the wife and uh missed the very beginning of the game and she's like i'm checking

1:05.0

the phone she's like let's just go find a place to go you know uh so we ended up at a, at a bar. And I'm like leaning. I was basically like in the drink well. Yeah. The bar like leaning in going like, oh my God, sitting there the whole time. Oh my God. What a shot. Oh my God. What a play. That was an enjoyable game. So kudos to them. That was a hell of a series.

1:30.4

I think we're going to see that series over and over and over again many times in the next 10 years.

1:36.9

Yeah, it sure feels like it. It was really nice to have, you know, every year we get a couple of games where everybody goes you know to their

1:47.0

social media outlet of choice afterward to be like oh man sign me up for seven of those and it's

1:53.5

it never happens or the series ends up going five or something you know like yeah it was really

1:59.6

nice to have one where every every single

2:01.4

person was like man sign me up for seven of thunder spurs and then we got it and and and it was bookended

2:09.2

by probably the greatest game of the season I think I think game one was had to have been

2:15.9

as good as it gets.

2:18.0

And then game seven almost lived up to it.

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