Victor Wembanyama nearly delivered a stunning comeback for San Antonio, but his final shot fell short and the Spurs are headed to New York in a deep hole.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama’s 17-footer at the buzzer missed, and the New York Knicks escaped with a 105-104 victory Sunday night to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n
San Antonio trailed by 14 midway through the fourth quarter before storming back with 14 straight points. Wembanyama’s three-point play with 57 seconds remaining gave the Spurs a 104-102 lead \u2014 their first in nearly two quarters.<\/p>\n
But the Spurs could not close it out. Wembanyama committed a turnover in transition while trying to connect with Stephon Castle in the final seconds, then got one last chance and missed the potential winner at the horn.<\/p>\n
The loss spoiled a furious rally and left San Antonio facing an 0-2 deficit as the series shifts to New York, where three of the next five games, if necessary, will be played at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n
The Knicks extended their playoff winning streak to 13 games behind timely shot-making from Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges after a dominant second quarter erased another early Spurs advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama nearly delivered a stunning comeback for San Antonio, but his final shot fell short and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-688300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}