Spurs' Victor Wembanyama skips media after poor performance in Game 5 loss to Thunder

San Antonio Spurs prima Victor Wembanyama froze retired the media connected Tuesday night, pursuing a brutal Game 5 against the Oklahoma City Thunder that resulted successful a 127-114 loss.

Wembanyama scored 20 points, but got 12 from the free-throw line. He was 4-of-15 from the tract and missed each of the 5 3-pointers helium shot. He had 3 blocks and 2 steals and was minus-8 connected the floor. It was his worst crippled of the bid aft helping the Spurs to 2 victories with 41-point and 33-point performances

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San Antonio Spurs guardant Victor Wembanyama moves connected the tribunal against the Oklahoma City Thunder successful the 2nd fractional of Game 5 successful the Western Conference finals NBA playoffs successful Oklahoma City connected May 26, 2026. (Julio Cortez/AP)

After the game, Wembanyama was obscurity to beryllium found.

"He’s got to instrumentality much than 15 shots, adjacent with the escaped throws," Spurs manager Mitch Johnson told reporters aft the game. "He’s going to person to people much than 20 points, for sure. ... OKC did a bully job. We’ve got to bash a amended job."

Wembanyama tried to rally his teammates with an impassioned code aft the Thunder opened an 18-point lead. Oklahoma City was capable to get the pb up to 20 points earlier San Antonio was capable to chopped it to eight.

Oklahoma City Thunder defender Shai Gilgeous-Alexander shoots against San Antonio Spurs guardant Victor Wembanyama successful the 2nd fractional of Game 5 of the Western Conference finals connected May 26, 2026, successful Oklahoma City. (Julio Cortez/AP)

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However, the Spurs couldn’t get person to that. San Antonio was lone capable to people 2 points successful the archetypal 4 minutes of the 4th quarter.

The Thunder blitzed Wembanyama with respective defenders, including Isaiah Hartenstein, Chet Holmgren, Jaylin Williams and Alex Caruso.

"It's a squad defense," Thunder defender Jared McCain said. "We talked astir it. We made adjustments to it. We cognize that erstwhile helium gets going, their full squad gets going."

San Antonio Spurs guardant Victor Wembanyama moves against the Oklahoma City Thunder successful the 2nd fractional of Game 5 successful the Western Conference finals NBA playoffs successful Oklahoma City connected May 26, 2026. (Gerald Leong/AP)

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Game 6 is backmost successful San Antonio connected Thursday night.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.