{"id":697429,"date":"2026-06-11T09:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697429\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:18:12","slug":"victor-wembanyama-points-to-spurs-biggest-problem-after-finals-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697429\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama Points to Spurs\u2019 Biggest Problem After Finals Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Wembanyama<\/a> did not try to dress it up after the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> let Game 4 slip away in brutal fashion. The Spurs had a real chance to level the NBA Finals, but instead gave up the biggest comeback in Finals history as the New York Knicks<\/a> escaped with a one-point win and moved ahead 3-1 in the series.<\/p>\n

After the loss, Wembanyama pointed to the issue that hurt San Antonio<\/a> most, admitting the Spurs were not the hungrier team in the second half. For a team now one loss away from seeing its championship hopes disappear, it was a painful but honest summary of a game they may regret for a long time.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to the media after the game, Wembanyama said, \u201cCan\u2019t really explain it right now. I think it is just execution, greediness, we clearly were not the most hungry in the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n

For most of the night, this looked less like a classic Knicks moment and more like a quiet ending to their home stand. San Antonio had the game moving at its pace, the shots were falling, and New York<\/a> looked a step behind on both ends. Then the crowd slowly came back into it, one possession at a time.<\/p>\n

Jalen Brunson<\/a> became the player New York needed him to be, refusing to let the game drift away. Every drive, jumper, and trip to the line seemed to pull the Knicks closer, while the Spurs started to play tighter with every missed shot. What had felt like a comfortable San Antonio lead suddenly turned into a possession-by-possession fight.<\/p>\n

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Still, the final scene belonged to OG Anunoby<\/a>. Brunson\u2019s last attempt did not drop, but Anunoby read the play perfectly, crashed the glass, and got his hand on the ball at the right moment. It was not a clean drawn-up winner or a pretty isolation bucket. It was pure effort, timing, and instinct.<\/p>\n

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New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson (11) reacts in the fourth quarter against the San Antonio Spurs during game four of the 2026 NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden.Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

That is what made the finish so brutal for San Antonio. The Spurs had done enough early to take control, but they could not finish the job. Their offense stalled, their decision-making got shaky, and the Knicks kept finding ways to hang around.<\/p>\n

Now, San Antonio has to live with the kind of loss that can change an entire series. New York, meanwhile, gets to carry one of the wildest wins in franchise history into a potential title-clinching game.<\/p>\n

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This story was originally published by Lindys Sports<\/a> on Jun 11, 2026, where it first appeared in the NBA<\/a> section. Add Lindys Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama did not try to dress it up after the San Antonio Spurs let Game 4 slip…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[36783,355,5489,2005,361,19560,6999,2116,99,60950,32090],"class_list":["post-697429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-og-anunoby","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-the-spurs","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697429","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=697429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}