“I have plenty,” Victor Wembanyama said Monday of his individual goals. “No, I don’t feel like sharing them right now. Try maybe next time.”

He finished behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokić after averaging 25.0 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.1 blocks.

The Spurs went 62-20 and beat the Thunder in seven games in the West finals, then lost to the Knicks in five in the Finals.

“When you start playing very good people, it means you’ve made it to a very good place,” he said of the opening-night rematch.

Coach Mitch Johnson says the unanimous Defensive Player of the Year can be “a much better communicator” and better on the perimeter.

The Thunder visit the Frost Bank Center on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. ET, which is 4:30 a.m. Wednesday in Cairo.

Photo by Daiei Onoguchi, CC-BY-4.0, cropped and resized. Victor Wembanyama at the NBA Cup in Las Vegas, December 2025.

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