{"id":513202,"date":"2026-06-06T04:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=513202"},"modified":"2026-06-06T04:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:43:18","slug":"knicks-beat-spurs-again-to-take-2-0-lead-in-the-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/knicks-beat-spurs-again-to-take-2-0-lead-in-the-nba-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks beat Spurs again to take 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl-Anthony Towns has been in the position where Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs are at the moment \u2013 the talented group of players that has everything to win, but make huge errors that lead to defeats.<\/p>\n<p>Karl-Anthony\u2019s experience, which he has gained during tough postseason failures, seems to be the key at the moment for the team from the Big Apple, which held a late surge by San Antonio in Game 2 for a 105-104 triumph and a 2-0 matchup lead in the series for the title.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks joined the 1993 Bulls and the 1995 Rockets as the only organizations to win the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2 matches of the Finals away from home. Both of those 2 franchises won the championship.<\/p>\n<p>If New York does the same, the Knicks can win their 1<sup>st<\/sup> championship since 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Towns finished with 21 points, 13 boards, and 4 assists in 33 minutes on the court. Wenby notched 29 points, including 10 in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter when San Antonio rebounded from 14 points behind to take a 2-point lead in the last minute of the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IT&#39;S BEEN 43 DAYS SINCE THE LAST NEW YORK KNICKS LOSS \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>Up 2-0 in the NBA Finals headed back to New York \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Nlg2K4PB2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1Nlg2K4PB2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/espn\/status\/2063100167310471519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl-Anthony Towns has been in the position where Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs are at the moment \u2013 the talented group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":513203,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17172,17104],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18191,18132],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"New York is only 2 victories away from the championship.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513204,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513202\/revisions\/513204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513202"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=513202"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=513202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}