Saturday’s early game between the Spurs and the Philadelphia 76ers featured a team working on tanking the season for Draft darling Victor Wembanyama and another team trusting a process to deliver big wins. The process worked, delivering the win on the way to a 2-1 early-season record...and the other team was the 76ers.
On the second day of a back-to-back, the Spurs could be forgiven for showing up to the Wells Fargo Center with no energy and letting the game slip away. Instead, the opposite happened. As boo’s reigned down from the home fans, the Spurs beat the Sixers by a final score of 114-105 behind 20+ point games from both Keldon Johnson and Devin Vassell.