Draymond Green keeps it real on Victor Wembanyama, NBA Finals loss

The San Antonio Spurs fell apart in the NBA Finals despite coming in as favorites to win the NBA Championship over the New York Knicks. After the final buzzer in Game 5, most of the Spurs players walked off their home-floor without shaking hands with members of the New York Knicks. Victor Wembanyama was among those players who walked off.

Many on social media heavily criticized the San Antonio Spurs star for refusing to shake hands with Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, and members of the Knicks after losing Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green was among those who thinks what Wembanyama and the Spurs did showed a lack of leadership on the part of the Spurs.

“Look your killer in the face,” Draymond Green said on his show, the Draymond Green Show. “Look your killer in the face. You got to look them in their face. By the way, if you leave the court and you don’t look me in my face and I just beat you, I actually know that I owned you forever because you couldn’t even look me in the face. And so to see them walk off the court, it was disheartening. And I blame it on youth. I blame it on lacking the leader to show them that, hey, this is what you do, not walk off. I blame it on that. I blame it on that. Lacking the leadership, the leader to show them that, no, no, no, there’s a way to win and there’s a way to lose. There’s a way to win and there’s a way to lose. And walking off the court, not looking your killer in his eyes, ain’t the way to lose.”

Draymond says Jalen Brunson will forever own Wemby cause he couldn’t look him in the face after the loss. (@DraymondShow) pic.twitter.com/e0YxYQZWCx

— JD (@GothamJD) June 15, 2026

In the five-game series, Victor Wembanyama averaged 26 points, 11.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.0 steal, and 3.6 blocks per game, but shot just 42.3 percent from the field and 27.3 percent from three.

Throughout the course of the series, members of the Spurs also made sure to express that they felt they were the better team and were solely losing because of their own mistakes. Even after losing the Finals, Wembanyama said he felt his Spurs dominated the series, but that the Knicks were able to capitalize on all of their mistakes.

It’ll be a long summer for Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs as they look to overcome losing in spectacular fashion on the biggest stage in basketball.

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