The superstar usually wins MVP in the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n
But the Knicks are up 2-0 on the Spurs despite Jalen Brunson’s shooting woes.<\/p>\n
Why? <\/p>\n
Because Karl-Anthony Towns is playing like an MVP at both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n
“He’s played two of the best games I’ve ever seen a big man play,” Inside the NBA analyst Charles Barkley said. <\/p>\n
Shaq agrees: Towns for MVP.<\/p>\n
“He has outplayed Victor (Wembanyama) in both games,” Barkley said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The superstar usually wins MVP in the NBA Finals. But the Knicks are up 2-0 on the Spurs…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":848267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6687,1260,3578,3579,304733,405,403,3122,5226,5225,5228,5227,3138,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-848266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-live-blogs","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116702659847833571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848266","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=848266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}