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Did the Knicks Have the GREATEST Come Back in NBA Finals History?

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🗓️ 11 June 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser discuss the Knicks, the Spurs, and the Stanley Cup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.2

final series. The Knicks were down by 29 points to the Spurs in the third quarter at 8152.

1:17.9

And the final score after an OG Ananobe Tipin was 107-106 Knicks. The series is now 3-1 in favor of

1:25.2

the Knicks after they shot 51% in the second half and the the Spurs shot, hello, 21%. Wilbon, you were there. Did the Knicks win it or did the Spurs lose it? Tony, it's only fair and right to credit Ananoi and Jalen Brunson, specifically them. And Alvarado came in and did some nice work for Mike Brown, who did some nice work and figuring out and creating.

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And all that's fine.

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But the Spurs authored the greatest choke job at a championship level of play that I have ever seen in any sport.

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They had the dumbest stretch, the most sustained stretch of dumb basketball I've ever seen.

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With a secure lead, you know what they could have done if there was a basketball equivalent of taking a knee?

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Like a football?

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Right.

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That's what they should have done.

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Just let the clock run out, the shot clock right out, 23 seconds every time, 24, buzzer, hand the ball to the ref, and then it done better than they did, jacking up three-point shot after three-point shot, not just ill-advisedly, but stupidly.

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And this is the franchise of, I mean, brilliance, Greg Popovich and Tim Duncan and David Robinson,

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and the hallmark of their franchise is intelligence, intellect.

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And what the hell were they doing?

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And it went on and on and on and on and nobody could stop it.

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Nobody could rally the guys.

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Nobody could say, let's stop.

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Let's not do this.

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We've got control of the game.

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And so the Spurs choked their way, as far as I'm concerned, out of the championship round,

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because as far as I'm concerned, it's now over.

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