{"id":843963,"date":"2026-06-04T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/843963\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:15:02","slug":"the-first-time-in-the-nba-finals-was-really-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/843963\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe first time [in the NBA Finals] was really cool, \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5836\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:OG Anunoby;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;OG Anunoby&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OG Anunoby<\/a> \u2014 who was sidelined by injury during the Raptors\u2019 2019 title run \u2014 didn\u2019t make much more of an impact for most of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, but the soft-spoken wing made sure he was heard down the stretch Wednesday night, scoring 12 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter of the Knicks\u2019 105-95 win over the Spurs at Frost Bank Center. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/04\/sports\/og-anunoby-found-his-game-for-knicks-in-game-1-of-nba-finals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cThe first time [in the NBA Finals] was really cool, but it wasn\u2019t the way I would have wanted it.\u201d Anunoby said. \u201cSo this time, just happy to be here, happy to be healthy.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u201cThe first time [in the NBA Finals] was really cool, but it wasn\u2019t the way I would have wanted it.\u201d Anunoby said. \u201cSo this time, just happy to be here, happy to be healthy.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u201cThe first time [in the NBA Finals] was really cool, but it wasn\u2019t the way I would have wanted it.\u201d Anunoby said. \u201cSo this time, just happy to be here, happy to be healthy. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/04\/sports\/og-anunoby-found-his-game-for-knicks-in-game-1-of-nba-finals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Post&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OG Anunoby \u2014 who was sidelined by injury during the Raptors\u2019 2019 title run \u2014 didn\u2019t make much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":843964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[45725,1260,3578,17380,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-843963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-frost-bank","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-og-anunoby","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116692263257268902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843963","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=843963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}