{"id":866027,"date":"2026-06-14T05:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T05:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/866027\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T05:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T05:10:15","slug":"new-york-knicks-beat-san-antonio-spurs-to-claim-first-nba-title-in-53-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/866027\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks beat San Antonio Spurs to claim first NBA title in 53 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The New York Knicks, fuelled by a sensational 45 points from Jalen Brunson, rallied again to beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 and win their first NBA title in 53 years on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Knicks won the best-of-seven championship series 4-1, denying Victor Wembanyama and his young Spurs teammates on their home floor to lift the trophy for the first time since 1973.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Knicks, who recovered from 29 points down in game four to produce the biggest comeback in Finals history, erased a double-digit deficit to win for the fourth time in the series.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They trailed by 16 in the second quarter and were down by 10 early in the fourth, but Brunson wouldn\u2019t let them lose.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI\u2019ve got no words,\u201d Brunson said after setting a Knicks record for points in a Finals game, surpassing Willis Reed\u2019s 38 in game three of the team\u2019s 1970 triumph over the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI don\u2019t know what I\u2019m feeling,\u201d added Brunson, who was named Finals Most Valuable Player. \u201cI\u2019m in awe. Whenever someone counts us out, we find a way to come back and do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks, fuelled by a sensational 45 points from Jalen Brunson, rallied again to beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":866028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[8952,5229,33877,14498,12549,9299,59594,24114,63691,83095,1260,405,3122,9342,7202,3138,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-866027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-adam-silver","tag-america","tag-big-apple","tag-britain","tag-dylan-harper","tag-empire-state-building","tag-frost-bank-center","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-mitch-johnson","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-prince-harry","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"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116746743275494953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866027","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=866027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}