Hoops Tonight - KNICKS WIN NBA FINALS REACTION: Brunson & Anunoby CLUTCH comeback vs. Spurs, Wembanyama, Harper
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All right, welcome to Hoops Tonight here at The Volume. Happy Saturday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having a great start to your weekend. Well, the 2025-2026 NBA campaign is finally at its end, and the New York Knicks are the champions of the NBA. One of the most unlikely contenders from our field this year. They were kind of all year just hovering in that second tier of contenders. We discussed throughout the year what their most likely title path would look like. And it would go through San Antonio. It went through San Antonio. They won three consecutive road games in San Antonio to go with something crazy like eight or seven or eight consecutive road wins in the postseason. As the Knicks close out the NBA finals, four games to one.
And they are hoisting the Larry O'Brien trophy as we speak. We're going to be getting an update on finals MVP at some point shortly, but you guys all know who that's going to be. We're going to talk about this game very briefly. I'm not going to focus too much on the game itself outside of Jalen Brunson. We're going to talk about this Knicks team and what this year was like for them. We'll talk a little bit about the Spurs at the tail end of the show as they had a catastrophic performance on several levels in a game last that they still should have won even under those circumstances. And that will be what they'll be. They'll be kicking themselves about all summer, a 16 point lead blown in this one, double digit lead blones and double digit leads blown in every game, a 20 point lead with nine and a half minutes left in game four.
They're going to have plenty to think about over the course of the summer.
How did the Knicks win the NBA Finals?
We'll talk a little bit of spurs at the tail end of the show. And then we're going to take questions from the chat. So any of you guys, if you have questions about anything, drop them in the chat. We'll get to them when we're done breaking things down. You guys know the joke before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. We have a goal to get to 150,000 subs here before things slow down after Summer League. So if you guys don't mind taking a second to scroll down and hit that subscribe button, that helps us a lot. If you're already subscribed, like this video, sign up for post notifications. It helps us a lot. All right, let's talk some basketball.
We're going to find out very shortly here that Jalen Brunson won finals MVP. And he absolutely deserved it. I thought things were kind of teetering a little bit during that Game 3, Game 4 phase where you could make a case for OG, you could make a case for Kat, you could make a case for Jalen. I talked after Game 4 that it turned into this big debate. Like, oh, does advantage creation matter? Is this something that we should talk about or consider when we're talking about finals MVP? My take on that is yes. Yes, it matters. It matters when you're playing against a defense like that, if you're the guy who can break it down. And that was abundantly clear with the way that he ran the show down the stretch of game four.
Yeah, brutal, brutal first three games of the series. But even in his brutal first three games of the series, he had multiple clutch shots that helped close out two of those games. Just little bits of playmaking and shot making that helped close the deal in games that he otherwise struggled. These last two games, though, I should say these last three halves, these last three halves from Jalen Brunson, just absolute masterpiece basketball performances. The stat of the night to me, is that on a night when the New York Knicks managed just 94 points, when the San Antonio Spurs managed just 90 points, in a game that was so ugly, these are some of the shooting performances for you. OG Ananobi, three for 11.
Victor Wimbanyama, seven for 19. Darren Fox, three for 15. Stephon Castle, one for 10. On a night when nobody could score the basketball, Jalen Brunson had 45. He had 45 going against a defense that has downright strangled the life out of many a great player in this postseason run, including the player many thought was the best player in the world coming in, Shea Gildas Alexander.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:48
2
How did the Knicks win the NBA Finals?
1:48–6:39
3
How did the Spurs perform in the Finals compared to expectations?
6:39–12:06
4
What role did Jalen Brunson play in the Finals MVP race?
12:06–17:24
5
What were the critical moments for Jalen Brunson in the Finals?
17:24–55:17
6
What are the implications of the Knicks' championship for their roster?
55:17–1:12:46
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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