In the crucible of a seventh game, a 21-year-old Frenchman named Victor Wembanyama stepped into the long arc of basketball history, leading the San Antonio Spurs past the defending champion Thunder and into the NBA Finals. What unfolded in that game was less about statistics than about the ancient rite of a gifted young player meeting the weight of a defining moment — and not breaking. The Spurs, a franchise that has known greatness before, now carry that inheritance forward into a Finals clash with the New York Knicks, where the deeper question awaits: is this the dawn of something lasting, o
Wembanyama wins Western Conference Finals MVP as Spurs dethrone Thunder in Game 7
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