{"id":1943,"date":"2026-05-30T19:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:04:32","slug":"game-7-awaits-spurs-at-thunder-on-saturday-night-to-decide-western-conference-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1943","title":{"rendered":"Game 7 awaits: Spurs at Thunder on Saturday night to decide Western Conference crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 For the 160th time in NBA history and fifth time this season alone, a Game 7 awaits on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1941\">Brendan Sorsby has made thousands of bets totaling at least $90,000, court documents show<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder will be taking on the San Antonio Spurs to decide the Western Conference title, after a back-and-forth series that has seen both teams leading at various points.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will take on the New York Knicks in the NBA Finals, starting Wednesday. Game 1 will be in either Oklahoma City or San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Game 7s, Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said, are the things \u201cdreams\u201d are made of. But at least one of the Spurs said he had a little trouble getting to dreamland on Friday night; Devin Vassell revealed that he tossed and turned for at least a half-hour after trying to go to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m more excited than anything,\u201d Vassell said at the Spurs\u2019 Saturday morning shootaround. \u201cI think that we have a chance to do something special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1939\">Pulisic: `One will bounce off your knee and go in\u2019 and then `everything goes in after that\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Thunder won a pair of Game 7s last season at home, including the one that delivered the NBA championship over the Indiana Pacers. But guard Alex Caruso warned that having Game 7 experience isn\u2019t a reason to relax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe just being here before, you have comfortability,\u201d Caruso said. \u201cBut at the same time, you don\u2019t want to be comfortable in a Game 7. If you\u2019re comfortable, you\u2019re probably not edgy enough. You probably don\u2019t have a high enough sense of urgency. \u2026 You definitely don\u2019t want to be comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell will not play for the Thunder in Game 7 against the Spurs because of injuries that have dogged both throughout the series.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has been dealing with a strained left hamstring for much of the playoffs. Mitchell has a strained right soleus.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1937\">Israeli launches strikes near ancient heritage castle site in southern Lebanon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 For the 160th time in NBA history and fifth time this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Game 7 awaits: Spurs at Thunder on Saturday night to decide Western Conference crown - Raleigh Moving News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1943\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Game 7 awaits: Spurs at Thunder on Saturday night to decide Western Conference crown - 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