{"id":864581,"date":"2026-06-13T13:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/864581\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T13:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:20:17","slug":"new-york-knicks-head-to-san-antonio-on-brink-of-first-nba-championship-in-53-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/864581\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks head to San Antonio on brink of first NBA championship in 53 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The San Antonio Spurs now own the worst collapse in NBA Finals history, but they refuse to be counted out yet.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While the \u2060New York Knicks look to clinch their first \u2060NBA title since 1973, the Spurs aim to stay alive in \u2060the best-of-seven series when they host Game 5 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">New York hold a 3-1 lead after overcoming a 29-point deficit in Game 4 and notching a 107-106 victory over the crestfallen Spurs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe games that we\u2019re losing have all been close games,\u201d San Antonio point guard De\u2019Aaron Fox said Friday. \u201cWe still have that belief that we have a chance to win. But we\u2019re taking this one game at a time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe\u2019re not looking at it as \u200cwe need to win three games. We need to win tomorrow and then we give ourselves a chance to play another game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Knicks won 105-95 and 105-104 in San Antonio to open the series. The Spurs recorded a 115-111 win in New York in Game 3 before the stunning meltdown Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Antonio Spurs now own the worst collapse in NBA Finals history, but they refuse to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":864582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,3125,3128,7200,3140,24114,3363,3141,24282,83095,3578,405,3122,17380,7202,3138,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,4714],"class_list":["post-864581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-boston-celtics","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-mike-brown","tag-mitch-johnson","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-og-anunoby","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sanantonio","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864581","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=864581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}