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 4
New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson motions to teammates during the second half of Game 5 of the NBA Finals basketball series against the San Antonio Spurs, Saturday, June 13, 2026, in San Antonio.
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. 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.
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. 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. A West Valley City man died after a diving incident near Cisco Beach at Bear Lake, acoordingprompted a response from law enforcement. The Rich County Sheriff'sAn AMBER Alert was issued forRaymond Vigil, a 9-year-old boy abducted by Marie Erika Lynn Marsh, a 33-year-old non-family member. Marsh is driving a white Ford.
A Kaysville man found the hidden treasure chest worth $25,000 after following a series of clues from a poem. The chest was found Saturday morning by a treasure hLess than a week after KUTV aired her story, the person responsible for hitting Dawn Opies' truck came forward“They saw the news article, so they wanted to do tA young girl was killed, and another was injured in a crash after their side-by-side rolled over and became engulfed in flames. Two girls, ages 12 and 13, were d
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