The New York Knicks, fuelled by a sensational 45 points from Jalen Brunson, rallied again to beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 and win their first NBA title in 53 years on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Knicks won the best-of-seven championship series 4-1, denying Victor Wembanyama and his young Spurs teammates on their home floor to lift the trophy for the first time since 1973.<\/p>\n
The Knicks, who recovered from 29 points down in game four to produce the biggest comeback in Finals history, erased a double-digit deficit to win for the fourth time in the series.<\/p>\n
They trailed by 16 in the second quarter and were down by 10 early in the fourth, but Brunson wouldn\u2019t let them lose.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got no words,\u201d Brunson said after setting a Knicks record for points in a Finals game, surpassing Willis Reed\u2019s 38 in game three of the team\u2019s 1970 triumph over the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what I\u2019m feeling,\u201d added Brunson, who was named Finals Most Valuable Player. \u201cI\u2019m in awe. Whenever someone counts us out, we find a way to come back and do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks, fuelled by a sensational 45 points from Jalen Brunson, rallied again to beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[90345,119873,93623,2715,119872,1067,31021,44345,15131,3080,188,6396,85218,82,84,83,1066],"class_list":["post-335752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-adam-silver","tag-big-apple","tag-britain","tag-dylan-harper","tag-empire-state-building","tag-frost-bank-center","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-mitch-johnson","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-prince-harry","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}