{"id":505652,"date":"2025-12-17T04:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505652"},"modified":"2025-12-17T04:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:07:28","slug":"spurs-are-positive-despite-losing-the-nba-cup-final-to-the-knicks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/spurs-are-positive-despite-losing-the-nba-cup-final-to-the-knicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs are positive despite losing the NBA Cup final to the Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keldon Johnson, the San Antonio Spurs&#8217; longest-tenured basketballer, shared what they felt after being defeated 124-113 by the NY Knicks in the NBA Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Since Keldon\u2019s rookie year 6 years ago, San Antonio hasn\u2019t won more than 34 matches in a campaign. But he and his teammates think that experience with reaching the final in the competition will help them as a team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that when you were the favorite to win, it means more when you didn\u2019t do it,\u201d Keldon claimed. \u201cIt\u2019s still a new feeling for our group as we didn\u2019t have any expectations to win in the past few seasons, but now everything is different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After most of the players sustained different injuries since the beginning of the campaign, the final was just the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> match San Antonio competed with a full roster of available basketballers.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama came off the bench in just his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> match back from a 12-match absence and helped his team with 18 points and 16 boards. However, New York outscored San Antonio by 18 points during the 25 minutes that the French player was on the court.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Left it all on the court. <\/p>\n<p>See y\u2019all back home on Thursday, San Antonio \ud83d\udda4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TNrcEdjQpI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TNrcEdjQpI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spurs\/status\/2001145946185318685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keldon Johnson, the San Antonio Spurs&#8217; longest-tenured basketballer, shared what they felt after being defeated 124-113 by the NY Knicks in the NBA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505653,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17104],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18132],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"San Antonio looks to build on the experience in the tournament.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505654,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505652\/revisions\/505654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505652"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505652"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}