{"id":693158,"date":"2026-06-09T08:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693158\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:37:08","slug":"nba-finals-new-york-knicks-111-115-san-antonio-spurs-victor-wembanyama-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693158\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Finals: New York Knicks 111-115 San Antonio Spurs: Victor Wembanyama stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defeat ended a 13-game winning streak for the Knicks &#8211; two short of the Golden State Warriors&#8217; 2017 record &#8211; as they chase their first championship since 1973.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only five of the 37 teams who have led 2-0 have failed to win the Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve done what we were supposed to do but the job is absolutely not done,&#8221; said Wembanyama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re not even halfway. The hardest is yet to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Spurs trailed 64-57 at half-time but went ahead with a 35-point third quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A three-pointer from Castle with one minutes 53 seconds left extended their lead to 111-104 and &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c0724lekpjeo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unlike in game one,<\/a> when they came unstuck against a late surge from the Knicks &#8211; the Spurs held firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although OG Anunoby hit a late three-pointer to cut the Spurs&#8217; lead to two points, Castle scored two free throws in the final 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anunoby finished with 28 points and Jalen Brunson 32 for the Knicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The best-of-seven series continues at the same venue on Wednesday (01:30 BST, Thursday) before the teams return to San Antonio for game five on Saturday (01:30, Sunday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defeat ended a 13-game winning streak for the Knicks &#8211; two short of the Golden State Warriors&#8217; 2017&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-693158","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\/693158","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=693158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}