Finally! Knicks win first NBA title since 1973 with Game 5 win over Spurs
The Knicks won the series 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits in all four of those victories.
SAN ANTONIO — Jalen Brunson and the Comeback Knicks did it again. And now they’re the Champion Knicks.For the first time in 53 years, New York rules the NBA.
Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 straight for New York in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Saturday night.>> Related: Knicks ticker-tape parade planned | Knicks championship gear selling fast >>The Knicks won the series 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits in all four of those victories. The deficit was 16 on Saturday night.
Brunson and the Knicks were never fazed.“I have no words,” Brunson said during the on-court celebration. “It’s everything I ever dreamed of.”
Brunson, fittingly, closed with a flourish. He set a Knicks record for points in a finals game; it had been 38 by Willis Reed against the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 3 of the 1970 series. It now belongs to the left-handed point guard who changed the franchise’s fortunes when he arrived four years ago.
Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart — the other two parts of the “Nova Knicks” trio that also includes Brunson, three players who were NCAA champions at Villanova and teamed up in New York to try to do the same — combined to score 27 points. Bridges had 14, Hart 13.“I don’t know what I’m feeling,” Brunson said.
“I’m in awe. Whenever someone counted us out, we found a way to come back and do something about it.”Dylan Harper scored 25 for the Spurs, who got 19 points, 14 rebounds and five blocked shots from Victor Wembanyama.
The Knicks improved to 4-0 in closeout opportunities this season, winning them all on the road. It didn’t feel like the road, though — not with thousands of New York faithful having made the trip to Texas to see a moment 53 years in the making.New York got to the brink of this title by rallying from 29 points down in Game 4 to win 107-106 on OG Anunoby’s tip-in with 1.
2 seconds left on Wednesday night. It was the largest comeback in NBA Finals history and the biggest come
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