San Antonio Spurs @ Utah Jazz
Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 9:00 PM ET
Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT | Game ID: 22500632
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
UTA 31 22 39 17 109SAS 31 34 32 29 126
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Fox scores 31 points, Wembanyama has 26 points and 13 rebounds to help Spurs over Jazz 126-109
SALT LAKE CITY -- — De’Aaron Fox scored 31 points, Victor Wembanyama had 26 points and 13 rebounds and the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Utah Jazz 126-109 on Thursday night.
Fox shot 10 of 13 from the field with six 3-pointers. Wembanyama — along with five blocks — shot 9 of 14 with four 3s one game after a 5-of-21 performance in a loss to Houston.
Keldon Johnson added 21 points and Stephon Castle had 16 points, eight assists and seven rebounds as the Spurs won their fourth game in their last five.
Utah's Jusuf Nurkic had 17 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds for his second triple-double in as many games, and third of his career. The Jazz went more than 15 seasons (2008-24) without a single triple-double until the consecutive performances by Nurkic.
The center became the first Jazz player to have back-to-back triple doubles since Pete Maravich in January 1975.
Most of Nurkic's 14 career-high assists came on back-door passes from the high post and resulted in dunks and layups for his teammates — but they didn't do enough on the defensive end.
Ace Bailey scored a career-high 25 points and Keyonte George had 23, but none in the fourth quarter as the Spurs finished on a 27-10 spurt and handed the Jazz their fifth loss in the last six games.
The Spurs shot 50.6% from the field and 41.9% from 3-point range while outscoring the Jazz on fast-break points 32-10. Utah allows more points than any team in the NBA, an average of 127.3 points.
The teams were tied at 31 after one quarter, but the Spurs went on a 17-2 run over the first 3:24 of the second. Julian Champagnie hit his fourth 3 of the half to cap the surge.
The Jazz played from behind until catching the Spurs to tie it at 99. But the Spurs scored 10 straight points and took a 109-99 lead on Fox's 3-pointer with 6:54 to play.
The Jazz are 1-11 without Lauri Markkanen , who sat out after a long illness.
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
SASCB C. Bryant
DF D. Fox
DH D. Harper
HB H. Barnes
JC J. Champagnie
JM J. McLaughlin
KJ K. Johnson
KO K. Olynyk
SC S. Castle
VW V. Wembanyama
UTAAB A. Bailey
BS B. Sensabaugh
CW C. Williams
IC I. Collier
JN J. Nurkić
KF K. Filipowski
KG K. George
KL K. Love
NU Nurkic
SM S. Mykhailiuk
WC W. Clayton Jr.
SAS/UTA the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur