{"id":725032,"date":"2026-06-09T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725032\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:26:08","slug":"one-ugly-reason-doomed-the-knicks-in-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725032\/","title":{"rendered":"One ugly reason doomed the Knicks in Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To hear Mike Brown tell it \u2014 very calmly and calculated, mind you \u2014 the Knicks were playing 5-on-8 in Game 3. They faced <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/09\/sports\/knicks-mike-brown-fumes-at-refs-over-game-3-free-throw-disparity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">five Spurs and three referees<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t complain much but I never thought I\u2019d see that in an NBA Finals game, and I saw it [Monday night],\u201d Brown said. \u201cThat\u2019s tough to overcome when you\u2019re playing against a great team.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brown had a point. The Spurs took 24 foul shots in the second half; the Knicks attempted just eight. It\u2019s a discrepancy that was difficult to reconcile for any objective observer. As Brown lodged in his press-conference complaint, the Knicks were certainly fouling. They just weren\u2019t fouling that much more than the Spurs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Knicks had a very good chance to leave in glory Monday. They should\u2019ve won despite the officiating inconsistency. They should\u2019ve kept their winning streak alive and basically assured the franchise\u2019s first championship since Richard Nixon was in the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To hear Mike Brown tell it \u2014 very calmly and calculated, mind you \u2014 the Knicks were playing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,2656,13799,288644,1666,85,2136,735],"class_list":["post-725032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}