Spurs-Thunder Game 7 Reaction + Imagining Football's Version of Wemby & Ohtani

The Domonique Foxworth Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Domonique Foxworth reacts to Thunder-Spurs Game 7 before being joined by Charlie Kravitz to imagine what a groundbreaking athlete similar to Victor Wembanyama or Shohei Ohtani would look like across other sports. We've never seen anything like Wemby in basketball or Ohtani in baseball before, so why were they able to thrive in such a unique way and what type of player could change football as we know it? 0:00 Intro 0:40 Spurs-Thunder Game 7 reaction 20:20 Imagining Wemby & Ohtani-like players in other sports 22:09 Wemby & Ohtani's upbringings 31:43 Could America produce an athletic like Wemby/Ohtani? 33:35 Imagining a Wemby & Ohtani-like NFL player 1:11:40 Imagining Wemby & Ohtani-like players in other sports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Off top, two of the three youngest people to ever win finals MVP of both Spurs,
0:06.4	Kauai and Tim Duncan.
0:07.9	The youngest, Maddie Johnson.
0:10.2	The fourth youngest, Magic Johnson.
0:13.2	This is the Dominique Foxworth Show.
0:18.8	All right, welcome to the Dominic Foxserve show.
0:21.4	I am Dominic Foxerf.
0:22.8	No Charlie Kravitz this time.
0:24.3	We'll be on a little later when we have this wide-ranging kind of interesting conversation about the wimbies of other sports.
0:31.1	But it's just me right now.
0:33.3	Paying tribute to Charlie with my hat or maybe I just needed to shape up.
0:37.4	Either way, I'm feeling just needed to shape up.
0:40.5	Either way, I'm feeling good about basketball right now.
0:46.0	It's funny how we spent much of this season complaining about the refs, complaining about flopping.
0:53.4	Then we get to the actual finals, and it's kind of awesome, in part because of the flopping a little bit.
0:56.2	I hesitate to say it, but the best thing about sports,
1:00.1	not the best thing about sports. When sports is most enjoyable is when you have like a rooting interests and you care a whole bunch about the outcome. And it normally only happens when you
1:05.0	care a bunch about the team that you're rooting for or the player that you're rooting for, but we actually had this
1:11.8	situation where Wimby represented something, I think, to a lot of us that was really cool.
1:17.0	And it's not just, while part of it is the juxtaposition to the, like, flopping nature of
1:23.2	the thunder that became a big, big story that shot out outside of basketball fans and all across
1:29.1	all sports fans. It was a big deal. It mattered and it made them like kind of villains out of
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