Ex-Spurs forward ready to hand over everything he knows about Victor Wembanyama to Knicks
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The San Antonio Spurs are back in the NBA Finals, led by Victor Wembanyama, after missing the playoffs for six straight years.
The New York Knicks swept their way through the East, making the trip to the Finals look almost clinical. While both of the teams look evenly matched on paper, the Knicks must find a way to stop Wembanyama, the league's unanimous Defensive Player of the Year.
To do that, New York is leaning on inside information from Jeremy Sochan. The Spurs drafted Sochan ninth overall in 2022 and released him in February 2026.
He then signed a late-season deal with the Knicks. After spending two-plus seasons as Wemby's teammate, Sochan's knowledge about the star center has turned a simple depth signing into a major strategic asset for the Knicks heading into the Finals.
Sochan told the New York Post he is treating the matchup as a personal intel operation.
"Whether I'm playing or not, it's important to feed all the information I have," Sochan said. "I'm watching their games now, I'm seeing the old plays we ran, when they go up to certain people and at what times... it's pretty obvious to see."
Jeremy Sochan will provide valuable intel on the San Antonio Spurs to his Knicks teammates, per @jschwartz115
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“Whether I’m playing or not, it’s important to feed all the information I have. And I think I know quite a lot.”
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His experience is a genuine resource for first-year head coach Mike Brown. Wembanyama is the primary target of the series. During the Western Conference Finals, the Oklahoma City Thunder showed that when they successfully frustrated the 7'4" center, the Spurs lost. However, when Wembanyama played like an MVP, Oklahoma City was completely unmatched.
This recent history proves that if the Knicks can keep Wembanyama from dominating, they have a real chance to win the championship. Sochan is their best tool to make that happen.
Just to recap, Sochan played with Wembanyama for his entire rookie season, including the experimental stretch where the Spurs put Sochan at point guard. That year, Sochan also had a 31-point, 14-rebound game against the Portland Blazers. Watching Wemby closely helped him to understand how the 22-year-old moves on the court most of the time.
These details rarely show up on standard scouting reports. If Sochan shares even half of these tendencies, the Knicks will enter Game 1 highly prepared. But whether it will be enough to stop him is the real question.
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