Spurs Grow Up, Chet Shrinks, Finals Field Cracks Open

Meanwhile the Spurs are the story nobody had on their bingo card a year ago. Wemby is Wemby, sure, but you don't survive a Game 7 in OKC on one guy. The whole roster grew up at once, and now they're the ones cashing the Finals ticket. Which, in this NBA, is half the battle. Picks Central's bigger point is the one that actually matters: this league is a coin flip from round to round.

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The era of parity Doesn’t matter how good you are, It’s hard to make an NBA Finals.

Parity is the through-line of the entire 2026 postseason. Top seeds keep getting clipped, role players keep deciding series, and the team that just survives the gauntlet ends up holding the trophy. The Spurs took the long road, took OKC's best punch, and walked out of the West. The fallout is going to be a fun couple of news cycles — including the joke version, where Spurs celebrations have already been repurposed as the universal reaction GIF.

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Myles Garrett finding out he’s going to the Rams

That's how you know a moment hit — within hours the footage is already detached from its original context and living rent-free as a meme template. The Spurs are going to the Finals, Chet's got a long summer of tape to watch, and the league's era of parity claims another would-be dynasty. Buckle up.