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While their annual rodeo road trip is supposed to represent the San Antonio Spurs’ ultimate test of stamina, the grind started at least a week and a half early this season. Saturday’s 117-101 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers marked the Spurs’ seventh game in eleven days dating back to a January 24 blowout to the […]

Even Victor Wembanyama, the 7-foot-4 international marvel loosely nicknamed an “Alien,” isn’t immune to South Texas’ well-chronicled allergens. Following a 19 point, 14 rebound effort in a 117-101 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, the generational prospect met with the media in front of his locker instead of at the usual post-game availability table. With his […]

The back and forth that led to the ejections of Cleveland Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell and San Antonio Spurs center Zach Collins started with around a minute left in the Spurs 117-101 loss to the Cavs on Saturday night. It continued verbally after – and with words almost as sharp as elbows. Cavs coach J.B. […]

The final play of the San Antonio Spurs’ 114-113 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night may serve as the most obvious example, but it wasn’t the only instance in which the home team didn’t rely on super rookie Victor Wembanyama down the stretch. In fact, the top pick in last summer’s draft […]

The San Antonio Spurs have been asked related questions numerous times this season. Too many to count. Unfortunately for them, so are the turnovers. For a second straight game, the Spurs lack of ball security took big portions of the press-game post conference. ClutchPoints asked point guard Tre Jones about the continued issue. “Honestly, just […]

San Antonio Spurs Hall of Fame coach Gregg Popovich didn’t need to say a lot and didn’t need to name any names to make his displeasure known over his team’s final shot. Instead of passing to Victor Wembanyama, who was open and heading to the basket, Devin Vassell missed a three-pointer at the buzzer with […]

The biggest omission from the NBA All-Star game may not have been the biggest – in terms of height and stature – omission among those not chosen. At 7-foot-4 and with the hype that towers over the field, Victor Wembanyama probably wasn’t the most deserving snub. In averaging 20.6 points and 10.1 rebounds per game […]

The San Antonio Spurs attempt at playing natural forward Jeremy Sochan at point guard probably cost the Spurs wins to start the season, and Sochan thinks that is at least partly responsible for keeping him out of the 2024 NBA Rising Stars game. “I feel like at the start of the season there was a […]

For a good portion of the season, the San Antonio Spurs have found themselves down big in the third quarter. Also common in those games is their propensity to rally. It happened again in the Spurs’ 108-98 loss to the Orlando Magic, though super rookie Victor Wembanyama doesn’t believe the size of the deficit really […]

The selection of San Antonio Spurs super rookie Victor Wembanyama to the NBA’s Rising Stars game served as a no-brainer. His inclusion as an All-Star isn’t a certainty, though there are a couple of things of which a couple of Wemby’s teammates are certain. While teammate Devin Vassell isn’t entirely confident the top pick in […]

The San Antonio Spurs have three veteran players who could draw interest from contenders. They also have several young guys any team wouldn’t mind adding in some capacity. In a best case scenario for the Spurs, they’d part ways with little used players and get substantial draft compensation in return. Unrealistic? Yes. But, a dream […]

San Antonio Spurs rookie phenom Victor Wembanyama is headed to All-Star Weekend. Whether he’ll play in the main event will be revealed later in the week, but if nothing else, he’s been chosen to participate in the NBA Rising Stars Challenge. The 7-foot-4 generational talent is one of 28 players who are either rookies, in […]

In following their best win with one of their worst losses, the San Antonio Spurs made no bones about their disappointment. While Gregg Popovich and Victor Wembanyama used words like ‘immature” and “unacceptable” following a 118-113 loss to the Washington Wizards, Wembanyama also took accountability for an area in which he’s struggled recently. As the […]

On Saturday night, the San Antonio Spurs succeeded in getting a win against one of the NBA’s best teams for the first time this season. Monday night was an opportunity for San Antonio to beat a struggling opponent. Instead, a 118-113 Washington Wizards victory left the Spurs frustrated. After head coach Gregg Popovich took all […]

San Antonio Spurs Hall of Fame Head Coach Gregg Popovich needed just 36 seconds to sum up his team’s performance following a 118-113 loss to the Washington Wizards. “We looked immature, we looked foolish…That’s a disappointment,” Popovich shared. The Spurs led the Wizards for most of the game and looked on their way to a […]

The San Antonio Spurs have been much better since a January 4 game vs. the Milwaukee Bucks. That night and the stretch since appear to feature two common denominators: better point guard play from the start and the need for consistency. Though the Spurs would love to continue to stockpile future draft picks, these factors […]

San Antonio Spurs rookie sensation Victor Wembanyama hasn’t been shy about sharing where some of his motivations come from. Facing fellow countryman and Minnesota Timberwolves star Rudy Gobert isn’t one of them. At least, not entirely. Given their friendship and Gobert’s long time mentorship of the 20-year-old French phenom, ClutchPoints asked this past June’s top […]

A night after maybe his best game of the season, Jeremy Sochan produced perhaps his best quarter of 2023-2024. The San Antonio Spurs forward scored seven straight points against the Minnesota Timberwolves, taking the Silver and Black from down two with 7:47 remaining in the game to up three just a little over a minute […]

Even though they’d only won nine games all season long heading into Saturday night’s contest against the Minnesota Timberwolves, the San Antonio Spurs couldn’t tell you which of those wins was their best victory of the season. That changed on Saturday thanks to a 113-112 triumph against a Timberwolves team that started the night tied […]

It appears the San Antonio Spurs don’t mind seeing the Portland Trail Blazers on their schedule. Jeremy Sochan scored a game-high 31 points in a 116-100 victory Friday that may have also marked the end of Victor Wembanyama’s minutes restriction. The Spurs have now beaten the Blazers twice in three meetings this season with their […]

Combine their standing at the bottom of the Western Conference with the generational superstar at the top of their roster and the San Antonio Spurs find themselves involved in trade chatter. Essentially, everyone outside of Victor Wembanyama is touchable. Therein lies the question. What players do the Spurs have that could help other teams – […]

The San Antonio Spurs 140-114 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder marked the franchise’s ninth defeat of 20+ points this season. The Thunder are who the Spurs want to be. But it’ll take for San Antonio time to reach that point, Hall of Fame head coach Gregg Popovich said. “It’s been a good number of […]

Billed as a match-up between NBA Rookie of the Year candidates Victor Wembanyama and Chet Holmgren, the Oklahoma City Thunder reminded with their play that Wednesday night’s game marked a match-up between the team that shares the best record in the West and the now 8-36 San Antonio Spurs. Not only did OKC not have […]

Both Victor Wembanyama and Chet Holmgren had their moments in a 140-114 Oklahoma City blowout of the San Antonio Spurs. Wembanyama, though, had more. As has usually been the case for most of his stellar rookie season, Wemby did enough for a win in normal circumstances. And as has often been the case, it wasn’t […]

NBA Rookie of the Year candidates Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs rookie and Chet Holmgren of the Oklahoma Thunder are set to meet for a second time in their young NBA careers. But, there’s no doubt that this one comes with much higher anticipation. When the Thunder routed the Spurs 123-87 in mid-November, […]

A little more than halfway through the 2023-24 NBA season, San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich spoke at length about his superstar rookie’s progression. The most hyped player to enter the league since LeBron James, Victor Wembanayama started well out of the gate in late October and has improved ever since. While in Philadelphia […]

On any other night, San Antonio Spurs Victor Wembanyama – as he so often is – would have been the biggest story. Then again, the San Antonio Spurs’ generational prospect had never gone against Philadelphia 76ers superstar Joel Embiid. The reigning NBA MVP’s whopping 70 points against the Spurs on Monday are a 76ers franchise […]

San Antonio Spurs Hall of Fame coach Gregg Popovich called Jeremy Sochan’s move to point guard this season’s experiment. If the experiment took what’s become an extended pause a month and a half ago, it may have ended Saturday night. Sochan may have just played his best game of the season as he continues to […]

It’s the news leading up to news, but they’re words San Antonio Spurs fans long to hear regarding Victor Wembanyama. “Perhaps after that,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said, alluding to the Jan. 24 game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. That answer came from a question about whether his superstar’s restricted minutes would be lifted by […]

The more things change, the more they stay the same for Victor Wembanyama. While NBA road trips take him to cities he hasn’t played in before, the reception has become familiar. After his first game in Boston, Massachusetts, the generational prospect was asked what it felt like to be treated like a ‘rock star,’ to […]

While New York’s City’s Madison Square Garden may be known as the Mecca of Basketball, it’s nearly impossible to find a more storied NBA spot than Boston. Whether the fabled Boston Garden or the current TD Garden, which is located in the same area as the original arena, the city housed some of the game’s […]

While Tre Jones welcomes the chance to start at point guard for the San Antonio Spurs, it doesn’t consume him. In fact, ask Jones if he sees this as an opportunity to solidify his role as the team’s starting PG and the answer isn’t any kind of a clarification. ClutchPoints would know. “Every game I […]

When Doug McDermott hit five of six three-pointers to help the San Antonio Spurs to their first win of 2024 and only their sixth of the season, it was impressive enough. More impressively, though, in that January 10th victory at Detroit, is that the 10-year veteran hadn’t played a minute in the team’s previous two […]

The thought of Victor Wembanyama in the G League seems ridiculous. To everyone but Wembanyama. The San Antonio Spurs superstar rookie said as much following his team’s 109-99 loss vs. the Atlanta Hawks on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. “I like to be coached. I like to be threatened to be sent to the G […]

Several factors can be traced to the San Antonio Spurs’ best stretch of what’s been a very tough season. Since the last couple of games of 2023, Victor Wembanyama has been playing the best basketball of his very young NBA career. Since the second game of 2024, Tre Jones has reclaimed the role he had […]

Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs went 5-27 through the 2023 portion of the 2023-24 season. They’ve gone 2-4 at the turn of the new year. A 122-116 loss to the Chicago Bulls broke a Silver and Black two-game winning streak, though it continued their best stretch of the season. “This is the fifth […]

With Victor Wembanyama out as the San Antonio Spurs continue to restrict his playing time because of recent ankle issues, Tre Jones scored a career-high 30 points in a near upset of the Chicago Bulls. “We just challenged ourselves, to be honest, to have some pride, step up and we made it a game,” Spurs […]

Though English is not first language, San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama wants everyone to know he means exactly what he says – especially when it comes to his game. “I did mean that literally. I’m not talking for nothing,” Wemby said Friday about a comment he made to ClutchPoints last week. The backstory Two […]

The new year has marked a new beginning of sorts for the San Antonio Spurs. That Victor Wembanyama is on a tear is the driving factor but there are several reasons as to why the Silver and Black are playing their best ball of the season. “We’ve just been playing better. It feels like, to […]