{"id":735220,"date":"2026-06-14T03:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735220\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T03:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:08:31","slug":"its-time-for-finals-basketball-san-antonio-spurs-vs-ny-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735220\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for Finals Basketball: San Antonio Spurs vs NY Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Game Thread. Veterans of the Game Thread know how we do things around here, but for all you newbies we have a few rules. Our community guidelines<\/a> apply and basically say be cool, no personal attacks, don\u2019t troll and don\u2019t swear too much. The rule against trolling also applies to members of this site that visit other fan sites. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a rough three days, folks. I just had to listen to this song<\/a> like a hundred times [warning: foul language] and have long conversations with my cats about the unfairness of life [they\u2019re excellent listeners]. I\u2019ve had to limit my PTR time, since every time I go onto the site, I see fans trying to tear each other apart and saying that everyone should be fired, and wondering how mad they would have been if the Spurs didn\u2019t even make it to the NBA Finals1. It\u2019s just really hard to get to the edge of success and then slip on a banana peel and fall down the mountain. A wise man once said, \u201cI refuse to carry the burden of hiding my emotions.\u201d And that\u2019s the trick, feel it, let it motivate you, but don\u2019t let it overwhelm you. That\u2019s where the Spurs are in tonight\u2019s game, they have to acknowledge their historic collapse in Game 3, but also have to move forward by playing with poise for 48 minutes. I think this series has shown that the Spurs have more talent in the starting lineup, but the veteran focus of the Knicks can take advantage of every mistake. They know how to exploit the way the game is being called by the refs and Coach Mike Brown knows how to work the officials.<\/p>\n

You have to give credit to the Knicks for what they did on Wednesday night as they fought all the way to the end, but you also have to recognize the the Spurs should have won the game. If the Silver and Black can make better decisions, they still have a chance to win tonight\u2019s game, and if they win tonight, then they just have to win one more, and then win one more again. This team can do it if they play up to their abilities, and maybe have a few bounces go their way. THIS ISN\u2019T OVER, DAMMIT!!<\/p>\n

Luke Kornet is questionable tonight with an undisclosed illness, and while the team hasn\u2019t played well whenever Wembanyama has to rest, he does have to rest sometimes, because his fatigue late in Game 4 was a big factor in the Knicks comeback surge. If Luke can\u2019t go, you might see a lot of small ball with Carter Bryant, and a lot of Hack-a-Robinson when Wemby sits. Devin Vassell could have a breakout game with the home-ish2 crowd. Things could get ugly tonight, but if it ends in a win for the Silver and Black, it\u2019ll be beautiful. GO SPURS GO!!<\/p>\n

Chants of \u201crefs you suck\u201d erupt whenever a foul is called against either team, because both Spurs and Knicks fans hate refs, and there\u2019s a bunch of both in the arena.<\/p>\n

San Antonio Spurs vs New York Knicks, NBA Finals, Game 5
June 13, 2026 | 7:30 PM CT
Streaming: ESPN
TV: ABC
Reminder: It is against site policy to post links to illegal streams in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Game Thread. Veterans of the Game Thread know how we do things around here, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,196168,85,145823],"class_list":["post-735220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-san-antonio-spurs-discussion","tag-sports","tag-spurs-game-threads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735220","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=735220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}