By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
The New York Knicks last won a championship title in 1973, and even if the NBA Cup is not the same, they finally get another banner in Madison Square Garden.
British forward OG Anunoby scored 28 points, Jalen Brunson, who also got the MVP award, had 25, and the Knicks rallied to beat Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs 124-113.
The Knicks hope that this can be a sign of things to come in their quest to win the championship again.
“This is a single-elimination tournament when you get to a certain point, so every game counts,” New York coach Mike Brown said. “There was pressure on every game if you expect to be who you think you are. When you’re able to have success, it breeds confidence in everybody in the organisation.”
Dylan Harper led the Spurs with 21 points, French phenomenon Wembanyama scored 18, and De’Aaron Fox had 16.
Wembanyama excused himself early from the postgame news conference because he said “just lost somebody” on Tuesday.