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维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 和圣安东尼奥马刺队在俄克拉荷马城赢下了西部决赛的开门红，并以同样的方式结束了这轮系列赛。
卫冕冠军被拉下王座。文班亚马和马刺队正昂首挺进NBA总决赛。
文班亚马砍下22分，朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie) 得到20分，其中18分来自三分线外。马刺队在周六晚上以 111-103 击败雷霆队，打破外界看衰，在客场赢下了这场抢七大战。
“这种感觉，我无法用言语来形容，”文班亚马说，“它太震撼了。”
斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 贡献16分，达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 得到15分，迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 进账12分，凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 和德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 各得11分。这是马刺队自2014年以来首次杀入NBA总决赛。
他们将在周三晚上的第一场比赛中主场迎战纽约尼克斯队，马刺队在主场开出了让4.5分的盘口。在DraftKings体育博彩开出的系列赛夺冠赔率中，马刺以-220被列为夺冠热门，而尼克斯则以+180处于下风。
“早在去年十月，我们就知道我们有机会变得非常优秀，”马刺队主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 说道。
纠正一下：马刺队有机会变得伟大。那是冠军级别的伟大。
第四节中段迎来了一个关键时刻，圣安东尼奥的卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet) 在篮下封盖了俄克拉荷马城的以赛亚·哈尔滕施泰因 (Isaiah Hartenstein)，扼杀了雷霆队一次本可以将分差缩小到4分的快攻得分。
这感觉就像是雷霆队最后的挣扎。科内特本场仅上场6分钟，3投0中仅得2分，但那次盖帽绝对是史诗级的时刻。
谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大 (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander) 砍下35分和9次助攻领跑雷霆，但NBA将连续第八个赛季诞生新的冠军。雷霆队中，凯森·华莱士 (Cason Wallace) 贡献17分，贾里德·麦凯恩 (Jared McCain) 和亚历克斯·卡鲁索 (Alex Caruso) 各得12分。
“你必须从每一次经历中成长，包括那些艰难的经历，”雷霆队主教练马克·戴格诺特 (Mark Daigneault) 说道，“这就是NBA——总会有艰难的时刻。我们也可以感到非常失望。……恕我直言，没有哪支球队是我们认为自己打不过的。”
在经历连续四场在进入第四节前就基本失去悬念的比赛后——雷霆在第三场领先11分，马刺在第四场领先18分，雷霆在第五场领先10分，马刺在第六场领先26分，这些领先优势都相对轻松地保持到了最后——而这一场完全不同，配得上是一场抢七大战。
马刺队带着80-77的领先优势进入第四节。他们在上半场曾一度领先多达14分，在第三节也曾领先11分，但雷霆队两次都顽强地将比分追了回来。
“球员们做好了他们一整年都在做的事情，他们迎来了最伟大的时刻，”约翰逊说道。
马刺队在第四节再次拉开比分，静候雷霆队的又一次反扑。然而，这支卫冕冠军——在因左腿筋拉伤缺阵的杰伦·威廉姆斯 (Jalen Williams) 缺席而阵容不整的情况下——已经无力回天。
马刺队在本赛季与雷霆队的12次交手中赢下了8次——而最终，只有这最后一场对决才是真正至关重要的。
“我们还要再赢四场，”文班亚马说，“我们的征途还没结束。”
*美联社对此报道亦有贡献。*
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Spurs dethrone Thunder in Game 7 to make NBA Finals
Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs started the Western Conference finals with a win in Oklahoma City then ended the series the same way.
The defending champions are dethroned. Wembanyama and the Spurs are headed to the NBA Finals.
Wembanyama scored 22 points, Julian Champagnie scored 18 of his 20 from beyond the arc, and the Spurs beat the Thunder 111-103 on Saturday night, bucking the odds to win a Game 7 on the road.
“This feeling, I can’t explain it,” Wembanyama said. “It’s so powerful.”
Stephon Castle scored 16 points, De’Aaron Fox had 15, Dylan Harper added 12, and Keldon Johnson and Devin Vassell each finished with 11 for the Spurs, who are headed to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2014.
They will host the New York Knicks in Game 1 on Wednesday night, with the Spurs opening as a 4.5-point home favorite. They were installed as -220 favorites to win the series, with the Knicks listed as +180 underdogs at DraftKings Sportsbook.
“Back in October, we knew we had a chance to be pretty good,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said.
Correction: The Spurs have a chance to be great. Championship-level great.
A huge moment came midway through the fourth, when San Antonio’s Luke Kornet blocked Oklahoma City’s Isaiah Hartenstein at the rim, denying a fast-break score that would have gotten the Thunder within four.
It felt like the last gasp for the Thunder. Kornet played six minutes, missed all three of his shot attempts and finished with two points, but the block was an epic moment.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 35 points and nine assists, but for the eighth consecutive season, the NBA will have a new champion. Cason Wallace scored 17 points, while Jared McCain and Alex Caruso had 12 apiece for the Thunder.
“You have to grow from every experience, including the tough ones,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. “And it’s the NBA – there are tough ones. We can also be really disappointed. … There’s nobody that we don’t think we can beat, respectfully.”
After four straight games that were largely decided going into the fourth quarter – the Thunder led Game 3 by 11, the Spurs led Game 4 by 18, the Thunder led Game 5 by 10, and the Spurs led Game 6 by 26, those leads all holding up with relative ease – this one was different, worthy of a Game 7.
The Spurs led 80-77 going into the fourth. They led by as many as 14 in the first half and by as many as 11 in the third quarter, but the Thunder roared back both times.
“The players did what they’ve been doing all year, and they met the biggest moment,” Johnson said.
The Spurs pulled away in the fourth again, daring the Thunder to come back one more time. The champions – short-handed, with Jalen Williams sidelined because of a left hamstring injury – didn’t have anything left.
San Antonio won eight of the 12 meetings against the Thunder this season – and in the end, the only matchup that really mattered.
“We want four more,” Wembanyama said. “We’re not done.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
via ESPN