{"id":255133,"date":"2026-06-04T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255133\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:41:15","slug":"kentucky-wildcats-news-karl-anthony-towns-and-new-york-knicks-take-game-1-of-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255133\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Wildcats News: Karl-Anthony Towns and New York Knicks take Game 1 of NBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Game 1 of the NBA Finals saw the New York Knicks come back from trailing by as many as 14 in the second half to defeat the Spurs<\/a> in San Antonio by a score of 105-95.<\/p>\n

It was a big night for New York\u2019s star guard Jalen Brunson, who scored 30 points in the victory, nearly half of which came in the fourth quarter. However, former Kentucky Wildcat Karl Anthony-Towns also came up big for the Knicks in the Game 1 win, securing a double-double with 18 points and 12 rebounds to go along with 4 assists.<\/p>\n

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KAT had some key offensive rebounds for the Knicks in the win, and continued a solid postseason, where he is averaging nearly 17 points per game to go along with 10.6 rebounds, almost 6 assists, and almost 1.5 blocks per game.<\/p>\n

The Knicks came into the Finals riding high off a sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> in the Eastern Conference Finals. Many wondered how they would respond after the long break with the Spurs-Thunder series going 7 games, but the Knicks pulled off a massive win in San Antonio to open this series.<\/p>\n

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Momcilovic changes national conversation around UK Basketball \u2013 Herald Leader<\/a><\/p>\n

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The addition has certainly changed how some national writers view the Wildcats.<\/p>\n

The Momcilovic-Tyler Herro connection \u2013 Cats Pause<\/a><\/p>\n

This is interesting.<\/p>\n

Kentucky trending for Malachi Brown \u2013 KSR<\/a><\/p>\n

This would be a big pickup for Will Stein.<\/p>\n

Kentucky cracks preseason Top 25 rankings \u2013 SI<\/a><\/p>\n

The Cats come in at 23.<\/p>\n

Biggest takeaways from Game 1 of the NBA Finals \u2013 ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n

KAT early, Brunson late has been a winning formula for the Knicks.<\/p>\n

Russell Wilson confirms retirement from NFL \u2013 ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n

The long-time QB is moving into broadcasting.<\/p>\n

Adam Silver talks expansion, tanking, and Europe \u2013 Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n

The NBA Commissioner touched on a number of topics.<\/p>\n

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Miami, Boston continue to be viewed as most likely landing spots for Giannis \u2013 Bleacher Report<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a good chance Giannis<\/a> is playing for the Celtics<\/a> or Heat next season.<\/p>\n

Politicians rail against SEC, Big Ten in congressional hearing \u2013 Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n

The term \u201csuper league\u201d was bounced around a lot.<\/p>\n

Cristopher S\u00e1nchez sees scoreless innings streak come to an end \u2013 CBS Sports<\/a><\/p>\n

Pretty impressive streak though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game 1 of the NBA Finals saw the New York Knicks come back from trailing by as many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11943,1266,97743,59990,75836,4777,1555,37011,9,11,1104,10,9416,61699,1777,820],"class_list":["post-255133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-celtics","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-frost-bank-center","tag-geoff-burke-imagn","tag-giannis","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-spurs","tag-texas","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}