Thunder's Cason Wallace Catches Heat for What He Said After Losing to Spurs

The Oklahoma City Thunder finished the regular season with the NBA‘s best record at 64-18.

The San Antonio Spurs were right behind the reigning champions at 62-20.

The Spurs were the only team to give the Thunder trouble along the way. The Spurs went 4-1 against the Thunder in the regular season, and they just went 4-3 against the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals.

San Antonio won Game 7, 111-103, in Oklahoma City on Saturday night to reach the NBA Finals for the first time since winning it in 2014. The Spurs will face the New York Knicks in the Finals, beginning June 3.

Thunder guard Cason Wallace still isn’t overly impressed.

“They’re a good team,” Wallace said in his postgame presser. “Beatable team. Obviously, we beat ’em. We just gotta do things better for a longer period of time.”

Predictably, the clip generated comments on X at record speed.

“Beatable but they beat y’all [expletive] with no postseason experience,” one user wrote.

“4-8 vs the Spurs this year. Enjoy Cancun,” another user wrote.

“They have no idea how much better the Spurs are going to be year after year after year,” an admittedly biased Spurs fan account wrote. “[Dylan] Harper and [Carter] Bryant are only 20! [Stephon] Castle 21! Wemby 22! They have no chance in the future.”

To be fair to Wallace, the Thunder did go to a Game 7 against the Spurs, and they were spookily evenly matched throughout this series. Not to mention, the NBA has not seen a back-to-back champion since the Golden State Warriors in 2017 and 2018, so declaring the Spurs unbeatable now would be as short-sighted as declaring the Thunder a dynasty last year.

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This story was originally published May 31, 2026 at 1:57 PM.