{"id":513416,"date":"2026-06-11T03:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=513416"},"modified":"2026-06-11T03:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:28:28","slug":"knicks-take-3-1-nba-finals-lead-after-historic-comeback-vs-spurs","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/knicks-take-3-1-nba-finals-lead-after-historic-comeback-vs-spurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks take 3-1 NBA Finals lead after historic comeback vs. Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks wrote history in Madison Square Garden as they completed the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history.<\/p>\n<p>OG Anunoby made the difference in the crucial moment, and now the Knicks are only 1 victory away from winning their 1<sup>st<\/sup> NBA championship since 1973. New York beat the San Antonio Spurs 107-106 after being down 29 points before that.<\/p>\n<p>Brown challenged Anunoby during the pause to be more active on offense, and that\u2019s exactly what happened in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half that allow Knicks to make the unthinkable and win after a 29-point deficit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a doubt, sometimes you need luck,\u201d Brown admitted. \u201cThat\u2019s how it is both in life and in sports. But you can also make your luck, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The past record for the biggest comeback in the NBA Finals history was made by the Celtics when they beat the Lakers in Game 4 in 2008 after a 24-point deficit.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio shot just 20% in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half after finishing the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half with 60% shooting, and that was the biggest difference that allowed the Knicks to make the comeback and take a 3-1 lead in the championship series.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OG ANUNOBY WITH THE PUTBACK.<\/p>\n<p>KNICKS COMPLETE THE 29-PT COMEBACK FOR THE WIN.<\/p>\n<p>LARGEST COMEBACK IN NBA FINALS HISTORY \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZtWVWY6JsR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZtWVWY6JsR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/2064914494598381940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 11, 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>The New York Knicks wrote history in Madison Square Garden as they completed the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history. OG Anunoby made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":513417,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17172,17104],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18191,18132],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"New York is only 1 victory away from winning the championship.","video":["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\/513416"}],"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=513416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513418,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513416\/revisions\/513418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513416"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=513416"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=513416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}