Festive celebrations have ended. The San Antonio Spurs had a merry Christmas with their third-straight win over the Oklahoma City Thunder while extending their 8-game winning streak. They\u2019ll look to avoid a holiday hangover against the Utah Jazz back home in San Antonio on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The Jazz are a scrappy young team that can beat unsuspecting teams on any given night. Case in point, Utah defeated the Eastern Conference\u2019s best, the Detroit Pistons, on Friday night, 131-129. They have legit high-end players like Lauri Markkanen and Keyonte George, both of whom dropped 30 against Detroit last night. An off night for the Spurs could snap their winning streak.<\/p>\n
San Antonio had some recent shaky performances against teams with losing records, including their most recent win against the Washington Wizards. They\u2019ll need to take advantage of their home crowd and their rest advantage, as the Jazz will be on the second game of a back-to-back. The Spurs may be down a key contributor, as De\u2019Aaron Fox is listed as questionable with left adductor tightness. They\u2019ll need to lean on their depth to take down a confident Jazz squad.<\/p>\n
December 27, 2025 | 7 PM CT<\/strong><\/p>\n Watch: FanDuel Southwest | Listen: WOAI (1200 AM)<\/strong><\/p>\n Spurs Injuries<\/strong>: Stanley Umude \u2013 Out (G League), David Jones-Garcia \u2013 Questionable (G League), Harrison Ingram \u2013 Out (G League), De\u2019Aaron Fox \u2013 Questionable (thigh)<\/p>\n Jazz Injuries: <\/strong>Do not need to report until 1 pm CT<\/p>\n Utah plays a fast-paced style with its group of young guards, highlighted by George and Isaiah Collier, and space the floor with bigs like Markkanen and Kyle Filipowski. They are 5th in the NBA in pace of play, and score the 7th most points in the league. However, their defense is the worst in the NBA. San Antonio\u2019s offense should continue to thrive against the porous Jazz defense, but they\u2019ll need to lock in defensively as they did against OKC if they want to avoid a shootout.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no guarantee that Fox sits, but given his sudden addition to the injury report, it wouldn\u2019t be a shock that he misses the game. In the past, the Spurs have moved Stephon Castle to the lead guard position and added Julian Champagnie to the starting lineup. But with Dylan Harper playing so well recently, and Champagnie struggling to shoot the ball well, it could make sense to give the rookie his first NBA start. That would make it harder for the Spurs to stagger the guards like they\u2019ve had success with this season, but it would give them more offensive firepower to start the game. Even if he doesn\u2019t start, it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise to see Harper take over Fox\u2019s primary playmaking role at the end of the game.<\/p>\n The Jazz often play two bigs together. Markkanen, Filipowski, and Jusuf Nurkic share the court a lot and cause problems for smaller teams in the paint. Utah is 6th in total rebounds and 7th in offensive rebounds. San Antonio could employ the \u201cFrench Vanilla\u201d duo of Victor Wembanyama and Luke Kornet to match up with the Jazz\u2019s size. The duo has logged 46 minutes together this season with a +4.1 net rating in that time. They\u2019ll be able to protect the rim and rebound at a high rate with those two in the game. Now that Wembanyama is playing more minutes (he logged 26 against the Thunder on Christmas), we should start to see a bit more of him and Kornet together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Festive celebrations have ended. The San Antonio Spurs had a merry Christmas with their third-straight win over the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":474808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,145315,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-474807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-spurs-game-previews","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115791157958348700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}