The San Antonio Spurs have every reason to believe they can replicate last year's success. Led by the next “Face of the League,” Victor Wembanyama, one of the NBA's youngest teams, and perhaps its most talented, returns every key player from a run to the 2026 NBA Finals. Already loaded with Dylan Harper, Stephon Castle, and De'Aaron Fox, they added valuable veteran Tobias Harris and a couple of rookies that, while not spectacular out of the gate, provide upgrades over last year's back-end depth.

All that said, any predictions involving the Silver and Black potentially classified as ‘bold' would almost certainly indicate some kind of underachievement.

Here are three Spurs bold season predictions as Wemby plots revenge for a loss in the league's championship series.

The Spurs will start slowly…considering

Admittedly, this first prediction is easier to make, considering the Spurs not only lost their season opener but also looked choppy in the 116-104 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

As they work through lineup changes and with Harris projected back from a minor injury before long, San Antonio will endure a handful of losses a couple of weeks into the season and will hit double-digit Ls before January 3, which marks when they dropped their tenth contest last season.

And that's where the word “considering” in this sub-headline comes into play. The Spurs may very well win 25 of their first 35 like last year. The difference now is the expectation. The Spurs are no longer trying to simply knock off the top teams in the West; they've leapfrogged them save for maybe OKC.

The three star guard starting lineup will change

Following summer-long discussions about how the Spurs would handle blossoming star Harper, head coach Mitch Johnson inserted the second-year guard into the starting lineup during the preseason, without moving either Fox or Castle. The three rarely shared the court together last season. In fact, they played as much or more together in the NBA Finals as they did before – probably worth noting considering it, obviously, marked their only playoff series loss following a 62-win season.

Some realities showed in this year's opener vs. the Thunder. While all are highly skilled, none of the Spurs' three star guards are fantastic three-point shooters. Oklahoma City collapsed the paint, and Castle struggled from beyond the arc in the first half. The third-year guard from UConn shot much better in the third and fourth quarters, but as a unit, their five appeared disjointed for the first part of the night.

Castle, Harper, and Fox together will have their moments; they may all still start come playoff time. Don't be surprised, though, if lineup changes are made along the way

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Spurs will exceed last year's 62 regular-season wins

San Antonio's loss to open the new year means they can only drop 17 more games during the regular season for a previous prediction by yours truly to hold true.

While opening night showed they weren't ready to beat a team that's two years removed from an NBA championship and has finished with the West's top seed in each of the last three seasons, the Spurs are capable of handling everyone else right now. Not to mention, an opener vs Oklahoma City doesn't project where they'll stand come April.

A healthy Spurs team will win 64 games in 2026-2027, but won't finish with the NBA's best record.