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Crazy Stats: Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Caste finished the 2026 postseason with combined totals of 942 points, 355 rebounds, 200 assists, 42 steals, and 86 blocks. No other pair of teammates in @NBA history has combined to produce as many points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks in a single playoff run, and only 11 duos have exceeded four of those marks.
Tom Orsborn: Stephon Castle on how the Knicks defense made it tough on him and his teammates: “They crowded the pick and rolls a lot, made us stagnant on the ball. When we tried get to isolation, they took away passing lanes too, made us play one-on-one a lot.”
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Oh No He Didn't: Stephon Castle on whether they can come back from 3-1: "I feel like we've made history all year. We've proven that with our backs against the wall that we can step up. I don't really expect this to be any different"
Stefan Bondy: The NBA’s two-minute report uncovers two officiating mistakes, and neither involved OG Anunoby’s block on Fox. The first was Wemby should’ve been whistled for a defensive 3-second violation with 1:26 left. The second was Josh Hart should’ve been whistled for a foul on Stephon Castle with 1:03 left. On OG’s block on Fox, the NBA determined, “Anunoby makes a legal attempt to block Fox's shot and dislodges the ball from his control before making incidental arm contact.”
Tom Petrini: Mitch Johnson on getting to know Steph Castle: "A lot of times I think as coaches we ignorantly get a player and then it's like their book starts and there's so much history that you can learn about a player and a person before they get to you, and so when you look back at his time, whether it's being coached by Coach Hurley, whether that's how he's raised in his household by his mother and father, whether that's him playing off the ball and sacrificing maybe some of the on-ball opportunities that he's more than capable of at Connecticut to join a national championship team to then win another national championship, a McDonald's All-American in high school that played with the basketball. When you start peeling back the layers, the toughness is there, the discipline and the structure is there, the understanding the value of a role is there, and it's showed itself in so many different ways, and so then once you get that young man who, because you drafted him, and as a player, as a person, you then get to build your own rapport with them, but it is really helpful to understand what people and players go through before they get to you, because if you take the time to understand that, and them, I do think it sets you up to have a successful onboarding process, and kind of rhythm as you get to know them early on, and I give a lot of credit to Brian Wright and his staff for that."
Tom Petrini: Mitch on Steph Castle: "He's found his rhythm because we've asked him to do every single thing that a player can be asked since he's been drafted. I know that goes back two years, not just this year, but he started, he's been brought off the bench. He's played on the ball, he's played off the ball, he's guarded primary ball creators, he's guarded bigger wings, and even some quote unquote bigger players or big guys. He's fearless, he's relentless. He probably doesn't get enough credit for his processing, and that's what allows him to do so much for us. He's in the middle of almost every single play, like Victor, and Victor, for good reason, gets discussed and gets a lot of discussion regarding that, but Steph is in just as many of the plays in terms of influencing them, and he's 21 years old, he's in his second year, and what he's doing in the Finals, I don't know, that's rare air, it's just really, really elite company, and what he's doing, and I think it gets overshadowed, and I talk about all the time, just because it's now starting to become, you expect him to do it.
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Per league sources, Rockets coach and former Spurs assistant Ime Udoka was a huge fan of Stephon Castle’s (which Castle said he was well aware of). But with veteran Fred VanVleet manning the point guard position and young Jalen Green at the two-guard spot, Castle and his camp sent the kinds of signals Houston’s way that eventually led to him landing in San Antonio. Just as he’d hoped. “I think being (in San Antonio) was always number one on my list,” said Castle, who won Rookie of the Year in 2025. “Internally, I always felt like I was the best player in that draft. (But) I didn’t know what could happen. My agent always told me, like, anything can happen in a draft. Like, you could not work out for a team, not have talked to a team, and they can still take you. So, I mean, I wasn’t really planning on playing in Houston. I didn’t really know how any of that worked. I was kind of hoping I could slide my way to San Antonio. It kind of worked out for me.”
Ballislife.com: Stephon Castle on if he's expecting to win Game 4 at MSG: "Yeah, definitely. I expect us to win the next three, but we're just taking it game by game, quarter by quarter, and trying to walk this thing down. Those first 2 games really hurt, and I feel like it was an eye-opener for us. We don't want it to be that way. We want to punch first."
Fullcourtpass: Stephon Castle on if he expects to win game 4 in Madison Square Garden “I expect us to win the next three”
