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SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama walked off the Frost Bank Center court sporting something every great player eventually wears. Not the glow of heroism. Not a defining moment of glory. But a wound. Wembanyama’s was fresh and gaping by the end of the night Friday. A colossal gaffe. A jumper too strong. A defeat sure…

SAN ANTONIO — The New York Knicks have no plans to ever lose again, do they? They have turned a wild fantasy into the sweetest of realities, and notarized it over and over and over. You have to believe now. Whether they like it or not, basketball fans all over the world have to believe…

SAN ANTONIO — Jalen Brunson was taking over the closing minutes of Friday’s Game 2, yet again. But this time, Victor Wembanyama finally got in his way and forced a miss. He corralled the rebound and looked to push the ball up the floor to get a final shot to try to even the NBA…

It has been 27 long years since the New York Knicks last made the NBA Finals, but they’re finally back. For the love of Chalamet, Spike and Tracy Morgan, Madison Square Garden is going to host a finals game again. That quarter-century was a painful time for Knicks fans. There was a lot of losing,…

SAN ANTONIO — It doesn’t seem sporting that the New York Knicks have eight or nine starters, while the Spurs only have five. But there you go. New York’s journey to the brink of an NBA championship — the championship that has evaded the franchise for 53 years — has been built, for the last…

SAN ANTONIO — The final 30 seconds of Game 2 were pretty brutal for Victor Wembanyama, the San Antonio Spurs’ rising superstar, with two misses and a disastrous turnover. The turnover may have been the most costly. With the score tied 104-104 and about 12 seconds left Friday, New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson missed…

SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama’s first chance for true NBA Finals glory clanged off the back of the rim, and the New York Knicks are now just two wins away from their first championship since 1973. Wembanyama, who scored 29 points for the San Antonio Spurs, missed a jumper before time expired as San Antonio…

SAN ANTONIO — Despite the ongoing war in Iran, organizers of next year’s FIBA World Cup are not changing plans to hold the top global men’s basketball competition in Qatar in August of 2027. Andreas Zagklis, secretary general for FIBA, said Friday that Qatari officials have made clear the World Cup “is a project of…

President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden on Monday, but he didn’t have much to say about regular fans needing thousands of dollars to enter the building, too. StubHub’s cheapest ticket for a single seat to the game between the New York Knicks and San…

The Athletic has live coverage of Knicks vs. Spurs in Game 2 of the 2026 NBA Finals. SAN ANTONIO — The NBA is investigating a fan interaction with Jalen Brunson during Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals that led to the New York Knicks guard complaining to lead game official Scott Foster about the…