With Victor Wembanyama and Jalen Brunson both going off, the Spurs hold on for their season-best third victory in a row
Victor Wembanyama walked from the tunnel leading to the locker room back to the Frost Bank Center court late in the first quarter Friday, and a sold-out crowd erupted. It wasn’t the first time the Spurs’ rookie star has been celebrated for walking upright. It probably will not be the last. On a night Walt Frazier was in the building, working as a TV analyst for the visiting team from New York, Wembanyama channeled another Knicks legend.
Spurs great Sean Elliott continues fight against kidney disease “All teams lose leads in this league, but how you come back from it is important,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. “And if it was earlier in the year, we would not have sustained our own execution, our own pace and that sort of thing. You can seem the maturity they’ve developed through the season.” Wembanyama became the second-youngest player in league history to log a 40-20 game behind Atlanta’s John Drew in 1974.
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