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Locked On NBA – Daily Podcast On The National Basketball Association

Why the Spurs Are NBA Title Contenders & Cooper Flagg is Taking a Leap

Locked On NBA – Daily Podcast On The National Basketball Association

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🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

San Antonio Spurs surge with seven straight wins, including two over the Oklahoma City Thunder—are Victor Wembanyama and company real NBA championship contenders? Wes Goldberg, Matt Moore, and Haize debate the legitimacy of the Spurs’ hot streak, spotlighting breakout performances from Wembanyama, Fox, and rookie Stefan Castle. The power rankings conversation heats up as they weigh Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, and Houston Rockets against the rapidly rising Spurs, with plenty of intrigue surrounding playoff potential and key Western Conference matchups.

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0:00.0

Good afternoon and welcome to Locked on NBA Daily on today's show. The Spurs have won seven

0:04.0

games in a row, including two over the thunder, but are they really championship contenders?

0:08.1

Plus, Cooper Flag is breaking out in Dallas, and the heat are sliding in Miami.

0:18.3

You are Locked on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.

0:23.1

Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:29.5

On NBA Daily, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, now the number one sports podcast network.

0:34.7

However, you're tuning in on YouTube or on your podcast app, thanks for making us your first listen every day. Today's episode is brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, use the code locked on NBA for $20 off your first purchase. I'm Wes Goldberg. Today we are talking about whether or not the Spurs are legit championship contenders. We'll zoom out and take a quick look at some of the power rankings of the top contenders in the league. And then we've got Make It Take It Wednesday coming up. But let's start

0:59.9

today. And we're doing it with the help of lockdown's local experts. I have two of the best

1:03.2

with me as always from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast. He's senior NBA writer for the action

1:07.0

network. It's Matt more. Matt. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

1:12.4

All the good teams lost last night because they were hungover because they're looking ahead

1:18.0

to Christmas and that's how it goes to the NBA schedule is too long. From the Locked on Bulls

1:22.9

podcast, he's also a Bears and Bulls creator for Bleach Report. It's Hayes. With Wes almost

1:26.5

forgetting the intro, I think Wes is the one who's a little hung over.

1:29.2

You've been hitting that spike eggnog there? Pro or anti-Agg-Nog. I'm a pro-Ignaug guy. Egg-nog and bourbon all day. It's always a hit. Got to put the bourbon here. Eggnog and liquor and coffee. There we go. Yes. Yes.

1:43.2

That's the cure for what I'm ailing of this morning.

1:46.3

That and the Miami Heats. coffee. There we go. Yes. Yes. That's that's that's that's the cure for what I'm ailing of

1:45.5

this morning that and the Miami Heat's current losing skid that we'll talk about in a second.

1:50.5

But right now we're going to talk about the spurs who beat the thunder for a second time in 10

1:54.5

days last night. They looked like the better team flat out again and they unveiled a new

1:59.9

winning time celebration where the crowd

2:01.7

claps along with Victor Weimiyama pounding a drum. This team might not talk a lot about

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