Following an NBA Finals return, San Antonio faces its highest win projection in decades. Discover why Victor Wembanyama’s roster is primed to surpass these historic betting odds.
The San Antonio Spurs used the 2025-26 campaign to do something they hadn't in over a decade: advance to the NBA Finals.
San Antonio hadn't been featured on basketball's grandest stage since 2014, when it defeated LeBron James and the Miami Heat in five games.
Victor Wembanyama's Spurs will now look to avenge their defeat at the hands of the New York Knicks ... which also took only five games to determine ... ahead of what oddsmakers are predicting will be a historic campaign.
The reigning Western Conference champions enter the 2026-27 NBA season with a 59.5 win total according to BetMGM, the highest of any team in the league not named the Oklahoma City Thunder (60.5).
Thanks to Sports Odds History, we can determine that San Antonio's win total is the highest the franchise has seen in at least three decades.
I'm sure you haven't forgotten ... but the Spurs did experience somewhat of a dynasty over the last 30-plus years.
Gregg Popovich and Tim Duncan led San Antonio to five championship victories from 1999-2014, yet they never entered a regular season with as high expectations as Wembanyama and this iteration of the Spurs will.
Is that realistic?
Or, how about a better question: Is that fair?
The answer to both is ... "yes."
Now, reaching the elusive 60-win threshold in back-to-back years certainly won't be easy, but it's far more likely that San Antonio accomplishes that feat than Wembanyama is to replicate Hakeem Olajuwon's ridiculous 1993-94 season, as Tracy McGrady is predicting.
However, the Thunder have nearly posted three consecutive 60-win seasons. They missed the mark by just three games, as the 2023-24 squad only reached 57 wins (that's it?).
But Oklahoma City ... as the conference is presently constructed ... seems to be the most legitimate threat to San Antonio's chances of advancing to its second straight NBA Finals.
That's the direct competitor.
If the Spurs are supposed to be on the Thunder's level, as many believe (myself included, of course), they should be able to reach win No. 60 at some point next year.
This prediction is contingent on San Antonio's primary pieces staying healthy.
Assuming that Wembanyama, Stephon Castle, Dylan Harper and De'Aaron Fox all play enough games to qualify for regular-season awards, it would take catastrophic regression or the surprising emergence of a new powerhouse to hold the Spurs back from surpassing their 2026-27 projected win total.
