{"id":727900,"date":"2026-06-10T18:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727900\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:11:22","slug":"stephon-castle-makes-bold-nba-finals-prediction-after-spurs-g3-win-vs-knicks-at-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727900\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephon Castle Makes Bold NBA Finals Prediction After Spurs&#8217; G3 Win vs. Knicks at MSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The San Antonio Spurs have a deficit to overcome after dropping the first two games of the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Star guard Stephon Castle is more than confident that the Spurs will get the job done. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I expect us to win the next three,&#8221; Castle <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ohnohedidnt24\/status\/2064436151272771691?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">told<\/a> ESPN&#8217;s Malika Andrew on NBA Today. Us just taking it game by game, quarter by quarter and trying to walk this thing down. Like I said, those first two games really hurt and I feel like it was an eye opener for us. We don&#8217;t want it to be that way, we want to punch first and be on the front foot. But that&#8217;s the reality of it now. Just trying to take it game by game. We definitely expect to come into tomorrow and come out of here with a win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Spurs losing the first two games at home stung, but they managed to steal Game 3 on the road on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">They have to keep their foot on the gas in Game 4, though, as going down 3-1 in the series wouldn&#8217;t give them any room for error as the series tilts back to San Antonio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Knicks still have the upper hand, but that isn&#8217;t shaking Castle and the Spurs&#8217; confidence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Antonio Spurs have a deficit to overcome after dropping the first two games of the NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-727900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727900","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=727900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}