On First Take, Kendrick Perkins and Stephen A. Smith join Shae Cornette to discuss the Oklahoma City Thunder losing to the San Antonio Spurs in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals. Plus, more on Chet Holmgren vs. Victor Wembanyama. 0:00 Victor Wembanyama’s comments 0:40 Does OKC deserve a pass because of injuries? 10:40 Chet Holmgren’s comments 11:20 Stephen A.’s thoughts 15:50 Big Perk weighs in 18:17 More on Chet vs. Wemby ✔️ Subscribe to ESPN Unlimited: https://plus.espn.com/ #ESPN
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OKC won last year facing teams that were injured and people are acting like it didnt happened
Wemby literally broke Chet mentally and physically. Chet will always be remember as Wemby son bruh
I truly believe if Haliburton didn't get hurt in game 7, the Pacers would have won the chip last year.
Perk absolutely right, OKC was praised by everyone for their depth and suddenly bring up injury excuses.
The Spurs were 5-1 against the Thunder when J Dub played 10 or more minutes...... Fox and Harper also were injured and missed time
OKC out of the playoffs. A victory for Basketball.
This fool (SAS) said that OKC would still win despite their injuries, but now he wants to give a pass to OKC when they lose....thats bullcrap
I don't wanna hear sh*t about injuries....
The fact that people are suggesting that OKC should trade for a 2x MVP to play with a 2x MVP in order to beat a 0x MVP lets me know that Wemby is clearly the best player on the planet.
Okc beat lakers with no Luka and win the finals when Haliburton tore his achilles.
Team almost won 70 games getting a PASS ??? WITH INJURIES
Stephen A completely ignored what Perk said. He said OKC always gets applauded for their depth and Stephen A proceeds to talk about teams who didn’t have depth who lost players
Caruso did more both offensively and defensively against Wemby than Holmgren did.
No one whined about OKC’s injuries all season. It was they were deep enough to beat anyone, now it’s an excuse.
"OKC has one of the deepest benches in the NBA". Ive heard so many analysts say that. San Antonio beat them fair and square. I dont want to hear the injury excuse.
Tyrese halliburton perk got it wrong not Tyrese maxey correct him
Never forget Perkins had the Spurs winning the title since like January 2026 and said they were gonna lose to the Wolves after losing game 1 of the semifinals
Always excuses SAS! The Spurs won and don’t make excuses for OKC! Denver had 2 injured players in a game 7 last year and nobody cared!
Ironic how OKC get a “pass” when Bron was undermanned in 2015 and 2018 due to injuries yet yall ain’t let that slide now did yall?
Yeah OKC was missing guys. But they also had a 29% shooter in Caruso out there looking like prime Klay Thompson most of the series.