Thunder Take Control After Dominant Game Five Win Over Spurs
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
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Summary
Victor Wembanyama was held to 4 out of 15 shooting as the Spurs lose game five of the Western Conference Finals to the Thunder. Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni, and Andrew Schlecht give their instant reactions to the Thunder win, Oklahoma City's bench performance, and Wemby not talking to the media.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Andrew Schlecht
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Lara Sinclair
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for May 27th, 2026. I'm Dave Dufour, and those cheers are for me. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm here with Esperi Henni and Andrew Schlect. Coming up, the Thunder. Take a three-two lead back to San Antonio. |
| 0:14.1 | We're going to talk all about it. |
| 0:19.0 | Good morning, everybody. What's up, guys? |
| 0:22.0 | Andrew, is there a horse going on behind you? |
| 0:24.4 | Is it knockout? |
| 0:25.3 | What's the game that the... |
| 0:26.6 | Listen, there are children of the employees playing ball over here. |
| 0:34.3 | That's awesome. |
| 0:34.7 | Everybody's pumped here in OKC and everybody's everybody got to celebrate |
| 0:40.4 | tonight, right? Everybody's balling. Everybody's balling here right now. Big, big, big win for the |
| 0:46.2 | Thunder, 127, 114. Look, I think my initial takeaway from this, where I'll start, is that the difference in energy |
| 0:56.2 | between the Thunder and Spurs from game to game has been noticeable. |
| 1:02.6 | And it feels right now like this Spurs team only actually has it every other game. |
| 1:08.0 | They just don't have, whether it's they don't have the depth, they don't have the legs. |
| 1:13.0 | I mean, they are so young and we always talk about the, you know, young guys running into a wall. |
| 1:18.0 | This is the longest season of Victor Wemma's career. |
| 1:20.8 | And this is this worst game of the playoffs, first game in this series where he has a negative plus minus. |
| 1:27.5 | But the thunder, I think that this is where the experience really plays out. |
| 1:32.0 | The thunder look ready every single game. |
| 1:34.8 | And even in the ones that they lose, you know, it isn't, it isn't a thing where you can say, |
| 1:38.9 | oh, they didn't have the juice. |
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