The New York Knicks won the NBA Finals 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits in all four of those victories.
The New York Knicks won the NBA Finals 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits in all four of those victories. Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks lifts the Bill Russell Most Valuable Player Award trophy after defeating the San Antonio Spurs in Game Five of the NBA Finals at Frost Bank Center on Jun 13, 2026 in San Antonio, Texas.
Add CNA as a trusted source to help Google better understand and surface our content in search results. For the first time in 53 years, New York rules the National Basketball Association. 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.
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, who was named the Most Valuable Player of the finals, 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 wereNCAA) champions at Villanova and teamed up in New York to try to do the same - combined to score 27 points. Bridges had 14 points and Hart contributed 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 comeback in any game this season, regular season or playoffs. The game followed the same script in the opening minutes as all the others in the series, with the Spurs taking a double-digit lead in the first quarter and then frittering most of it away in the second quarter.
The Spurs became the first team in the play-by-play era, which started in the 1996-97 season, to lead five finals games by 10 points or more in first quarters. The Knicks simply could not make a shot, missing on 16 of their first 18 tries and each of their first 11 two-point attempts. There even was a point in the second quarter when Wembanyama had more blocked shots than the Knicks had made shots .
San Antonio’s lead was as many as 10 in the first quarter, as many as 16 in the second. A 22-9 run in the second quarter got New York within three, before Devin Vassell scored just before the half-time buzzer to give San Antonio a 42-37 edge at the break. And that capped an opening 24 minutes of either offensive ineptitude or defensive prowess, depending on perspective.
The 79 combined points in the first half were the lowest in a finals game since Game 7 of Lakers-Celtics in 2010, and the combined 31.8 per cent field goals shooting by the Knicks and Spurs was the lowest in the first half of a finals game in the play-by-play era. Brunson won NCAA crowns twice with Villanova - both in Texas, the 2016 one in Houston and the 2018 one in San Antonio, just a few miles away from the arena that the Spurs call home.
The win marked the final chapter of a dramatic playoff run which had captivated New York, with tens of thousands of long-suffering fans packing neighborhood watch parties throughout the Big Apple as the team inched towards a first title in more than half a century. Within moments of clinching victory on Saturday, the Empire State Building was lit up in the Knicks' signature orange and blue colors, as raucous celebrations erupted outside the team's Madison Square Garden home.
Multiple buildings in the New York City skyline, including the Empire State Building, are lit with the colors of New York Knicks after the team won the NBA Championship for the first time since 1973 and the third time in franchise history.
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