Wembanyama admits blame after Spurs’ Knicks Game 2 slip

Wembanyama admits – Victor Wembanyama owned up to a decisive late turnover that helped seal the New York Knicks’ 105-104 Game 2 win over the San Antonio Spurs, fouling Jalen Brunson after the giveaway and watching his team lose a game they said they controlled.

The last seconds of Game 2 had the feeling of a script the Spurs were finally ready to execute. The score was tied at 104, San Antonio forced a crucial stop, and Victor Wembanyama took control of the moment—pulling the board in his hands and beginning the trip up the floor.

Then everything unraveled in a rush.

Wembanyama, sprinting to get the ball up, threw a pass to Stephon Castle that Castle wasn’t even looking for. The ball ended up bouncing off Castle’s back. In the same swing of chaos. Wembanyama fouled Jalen Brunson after the giveaway. sending Brunson to the foul line for the free throw that sealed the game for the Knicks.

San Antonio didn’t get another answer. Wembanyama tried to make amends at the buzzer, clanking a shot off the back iron to end it, and the Knicks took Game 2 by a single point, 105-104.

After the Spurs’ loss, Wembanyama didn’t dress it up. In his postgame presser, he directly took responsibility, saying: “I threw that one away. I messed up… We needed to win that game. This game was ours. But at this point, it’s done. Am I going to regret it?. Yes, of course. Am I going to use that to fuel me and to fuel us next game?. Absolutely.”.

He added the sting of knowing what happened while it was happening—he described the turnover as something he would regret, but also something he intended to turn into fuel for the Spurs moving forward.

The margin that night mattered, too. Wembanyama’s late-game turnover wasn’t just a mistake in a vacuum; it directly handed New York a trip to the line, and the Knicks converted. That sequence is why the moment stayed with him after the final buzzer.

Even the greatest players have to learn in the playoffs—this isn’t the first time basketball’s brightest stars have been forced to absorb the kinds of lessons that arrive with time running out. Wembanyama’s admission after Game 2 made it clear the Spurs star understands the stakes of those lessons: he said the game was there for them. and he made sure everyone heard that he’s the one who lost it.

For now, the series isn’t finished. The Spurs are still in it, even with Game 2 slipping away on that one late turnover—and with Wembanyama already framing it as the exact kind of teaching moment playoff basketball can demand.

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