KNICKS at SPURS | NBA FINALS GAME 5 HIGHLIGHTS
June 13, 2026
THE COMEBACK KNICKS ARE THE CHAMPION KNICKS. BRUNSON SCORES 45, AND NEW YORK TOPS SPURS FOR TITLE
Tonight's Game Observation:
- Spurs may have the new black mamba in Wemby, but New York Knicks has the Mamba Mentality to win this series and get another NBA championship after 53 long years.
- Yes, CONGRATULATIONS are in order for the Knicks!
- This has been the best version of the Knicks in several decades, if they can convert KAT to Giannis, they will be the team to beat on the eastern conference.
Suggestion for the SPURS:
- DYLAN HARPER should be your starting point guard at this point. Old NBA coaches have this habit of letting rookies wait their turn, it's time to abandon this tradition and let better players be in your starting rotation.
Suggestion for Los Anges Lakers:
It's time to UPGRADE our line up.
Dear ROB PELINKA:
Potential Moves
#1 CENTER OPTIONS:
- ISAIAH HARKENSTEIN Offer $30M a year ($90M -3yrs)
- DAMONTAS SABONIS - For Reaves & Ayton
- GIANNIS - For Reaves, Ayton, Knecht, Kleiba & Picks
- JALEN DUREN - Offer $10M a year ($30M -3yrs)
- WALKER KESSLER - Offer $10M a year ($30M -3yrs)
#2 SHOOTING GUARD OPTIONS:
- ANFERNEE SIMMONS - Offer $25M/yr ($125M -5yrs)
- AYO DOSUNMU - Offer $15M a Year ($30M -2yrs)
- COLLIN GILLESPIE - Offer $5M a Year ($25M -5yrs)
- JORDAN GOODWIN - Offer $5M a Year ($25M -5yrs)
#3 SMALL FORWARD OPTIONS:
- DEAN WADE Offer $8M a Year ($24M -3yrs)
- DRAYMOND GREEN Offer $8M a Year ($24M -3yrs)
Our Free Agents:
- LEBRON JAMES - Offer $20M a Year
- AUSTIN REAVES - Offer $25M a Year ($125M -5yrs)
- LUKE KENNARD - Offer $15M a Year ($60M -4yrs)
- JAXSON HAYES - Offer $5M a Year ($10M -2yrs)
Must Keep Players:
- LUKA DONCIC - $165M for 3 Years
- RUI HACHIMURA - $51M for 3 Years
- MARCUS SMART - $10.5M for 2 Years
- JAKE LARAVIA - $12M for 2 Years
- JARRED VANDERVBILT - $48M for 4 Years
Draft Mistakes of the Past:
- 2015 Lakers Picked - D'Angello Russell (#2)
- Instead of Devin Booker at #13, Miles Turner at #11
- 2016 Lakers Picked - Brandon Ingram (#2)
- Instead of Jaylen Brown at #3, D. Sabonis at #11
- 2017 Lakers Picked - Lonzo Ball (#2)
- Instead of Jason Tatum at #3, De'Aaron Fox at 5, Laurie Markkanen at 7, Donovan Mitchell at 13, )
SAN ANTONIO (AP) Jalen Brunson and the Comeback Knicks did it again. And now they're the Champion Knicks.
For the first time in 53 years, New York rules the NBA. Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 straight for New York in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Saturday night.
The Knicks won the series 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits in all four of those victories. The deficit was 16 on Saturday night. Brunson and the Knicks were never fazed.
“I have no words,” Brunson said during the on-court celebration. “It's everything I ever dreamed of.”
Brunson, fittingly, closed with a flourish. He set a Knicks record for points in a finals game; it had been 38 by Willis Reed against the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 3 of the 1970 series. It now belongs to the left-handed point guard who changed the franchise’s fortunes when he arrived four years ago.
Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart - the other two parts of the “Nova Knicks” trio that also includes Brunson, three players who were NCAA champions at Villanova and teamed up in New York to try to do the same - combined to score 27 points. Bridges had 14, Hart 13.
“I don't know what I'm feeling,” Brunson said. “I'm in awe. Whenever someone counted us out, we found a way to come back and do something about it.”
Dylan Harper scored 25 for the Spurs, who got 19 points, 14 rebounds and five blocked shots from Victor Wembanyama.
The Knicks improved to 4-0 in closeout opportunities this season, winning them all on the road. It didn't feel like the road, though - not with thousands of New York faithful having made the trip to Texas to see a moment 53 years in the making.
New York got to the brink of this title by rallying from 29 points down in Game 4 to win 107-106 on OG Anunoby's tip-in with 1.2 seconds left on Wednesday night. It was the largest comeback in NBA Finals history and the biggest comeback in any game this season, regular season or playoffs.
By comparison, then, a 16-point rally in this one seemed easy.
The game followed the same script in the opening minutes as all the others in the series, with the Spurs taking a double-digit lead in the first quarter and then frittering most of it away in the second quarter.
The Spurs became the first team in the play-by-play era, which started in the 1996-97 season, to lead five finals games by 10 points or more in first quarters.
The Knicks simply could not make a shot, missing on 16 of their first 18 tries and each of their first 11 two-point attempts. There even was a point in the second quarter when Wembanyama had more blocked shots (five) than the Knicks had made shots (four). San Antonio’s lead was as many as 10 in the first quarter, as many as 16 in the second.
Of course, none of it mattered much. As always, the Knicks came back.
A 22-9 run in the second quarter got New York within three, before Devin Vassell scored just before the halftime buzzer to give San Antonio a 42-37 edge at the break.
And that capped an opening 24 minutes of either offensive ineptitude or defensive prowess, depending on perspective. The 79 combined points in the first half were the lowest in a finals game since Game 7 of Lakers-Celtics in 2010, and the combined 31.8% field goals shooting by the Knicks and Spurs was the lowest in the first half of a finals game in the play-by-play era.
Brunson won NCAA crowns twice with Villanova - both in Texas, the 2016 one in Houston and the 2018 one in San Antonio, just a few miles away from the arena that the Spurs call home.
A Texas three-step of titles, and this one was surely the sweetest of all.
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