By Tim Reynolds The Associated Press
June 13, 2026 - 9:24 pm
SAN ANTONIO — Jalen Brunson and the Comeback Knicks did it again. Now, telephone them the Champion Knicks.
For the archetypal clip successful 53 years, New York rules the NBA. Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 consecutive for New York successful the 4th quarter, and the Knicks bushed the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 successful Game 5 of the NBA Finals connected Saturday night.
The Knicks won the bid 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits successful each 4 of those victories. The shortage was 16 connected Saturday night. Brunson and the Knicks were ne'er fazed.
Brunson, fittingly, closed with a flourish. He acceptable a Knicks grounds for points successful a Finals game; it had been 38 by Willis Reed against the Los Angeles Lakers successful Game 3 of the 1970 series. It present belongs to the left-handed constituent defender who changed the franchise’s fortunes erstwhile helium arrived 4 years ago.
Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart — the different 2 parts of the “Nova Knicks” trio that besides includes Brunson, 3 players who were NCAA champions astatine Villanova and teamed up successful New York to effort to bash the aforesaid — combined to people 27 points. Bridges had 14, Hart 13.
Brunson won NCAA crowns doubly with Villanova — some successful Texas, the 2016 1 successful Houston and the 2018 1 successful San Antonio, conscionable a fewer miles distant from the arena that the Spurs telephone home.
A Texas three-step of titles, and this 1 was surely the sweetest of all.
Dylan Harper scored 25 for the Spurs, who got 19 points, 14 rebounds and 5 blocked shots from Victor Wembanyama.
The Knicks improved to 4-0 successful closeout opportunities this season, winning them each connected the road. It didn’t consciousness similar the road, though — not with thousands of New York faithful having made the travel to Texas to spot a infinitesimal 53 years successful the making.
New York got to the brink of this rubric by rallying from 29 points down successful Game 4 to triumph 107-106 connected OG Anunoby’s tip-in with 1.2 seconds near connected Wednesday night. It was the largest comeback successful NBA Finals past and the biggest comeback successful immoderate crippled this season, regular play oregon playoffs.
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