{"id":764455,"date":"2026-06-27T21:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764455\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:08:30","slug":"reliving-knicks-improbable-nba-finals-game-4-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764455\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliving Knicks\u2019 improbable NBA Finals Game 4 comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

From tipoff to final buzzer, Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals<\/a> between the Knicks and the Spurs lasted 2 hours and 50 minutes. There was one tie: 0-0. There were just three lead changes, all in the final 82 seconds. There were 42 fouls called \u2014 21 on each team. Two of them were flagrants \u2014 one apiece. There were 72 made baskets \u2014 36 for the Knicks, 36 for the Spurs. There were eight blocked shots \u2014 you guessed it, four per side.<\/p>\n

In every way, this was an epic basketball game, as closely contested as the sport allows. Across those 170 minutes, two teams and two cities and two fanbases would volley dizzying highs and nauseating lows and every manner of emotion in between as allowed by law. The Knicks had played 2,619 games inside this iteration of Madison Square Garden since Feb. 14, 1968. None of them were quite like what No. 2,620 would turn out to be \u2026<\/p>\n

2:44 p.m.: There will be 19,812 people filling 19,812 seats at the Garden tonight. They all start their pilgrimage somewhere. Michael Clark\u2019s begins in Penn Station \u2014 the one on North Charles Street in Baltimore, where Clark, a native of Randolph, N.J., now lives \u2014 and ends at the \u201cother\u201d Penn Station 2 hours and 16 minutes later.<\/p>\n

6:33 p.m.: \u201cSome nights,\u201d says Bruce Beck, the iconic Channel 4 sports anchor, as he steps into a Garden elevator, \u201cyou can just sense something special\u2019s about to happen, can\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From tipoff to final buzzer, Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Spurs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,2656,288644,1666,9275,10549,85,735],"class_list":["post-764455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-og-anunoby","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764455","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=764455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}