GAME 4: KNICKS 107, SPURS 106
(New York leads series 3-1.)
• HISTORIC COMEBACK: The Knicks overcame a 29-point deficit to win Game 4, the largest comeback on record in NBA Finals history. … The Knicks trailed by 17 points with just under nine minutes remaining. Before tonight, since 1971, teams trailing by at least 17 points at any point in the final nine minutes of regulation of an NBA Finals game had never come back to win (0-96 record). … The Knicks trailed by 27 points at halftime. Before tonight, during the shot clock era (since 1955), teams trailing by at least 27 points at halftime of a playoff game had never come back to win (0-58).
• GAME-WINNER: OG Anunoby’s tip-in marked the 10th game-winning field goal in the NBA Finals with three seconds or less remaining since 1971. It also marked the second consecutive NBA Finals to feature such a shot, after Tyrese Haliburton’s Game 1 winner in 2025.
• ONE-POINT HISTORY: Spurs-Knicks is the second NBA Finals series in which multiple games have been decided by one point (Games 2 and 4), joining the 1975 Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Washington Bullets (Games 2 and 4).
• 3-1 FINALS: The Knicks are the 39th team to take a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals. In the previous 38 instances, the team leading 3-1 went on to win the NBA championship 37 times – 20 times in five games, 15 times in six games and two times in seven games. The only comeback from a 3-1 deficit in the Finals came in 2016, when the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Golden State Warriors in seven games.
• JALEN BRUNSON AND OG ANUNOBY: Jalen Brunson (36 points) and OG Anunoby (33 points) became the first pair of Knicks teammates ever to score 30+ points in the same NBA Finals game. … Brunson’s 36 points tied the third most by a Knick in a Finals game, trailing only 38- and 37-point performances by Willis Reed (Game 3 and Game 1 in 1970, respectively). … Brunson is the first Knick to record three 30-point games in a single NBA Finals series. … Anunoby set playoff career highs with 33 points and seven three-pointers. … Brunson and Anunoby combined to outscore the Spurs 36-30 in the second half.
• KNICKS’ DEFENSE: New York held San Antonio to 30 points in the second half, tied for the second-fewest points in any NBA Finals half in the play-by-play era (since the 1998 Finals).
• THREE-POINT RECORD: The Spurs set an NBA Finals record for three-pointers made in a half with 14 in the first half. The previous record was 13 by the Cleveland Cavaliers against the Golden State Warriors in in the first half of Game 4 in 2017.
• HALFTIME LEAD: The Spurs’ 27-point halftime lead (76-49) is the largest halftime lead by a true road team in NBA Finals history. In Game 6 of the 2020 NBA Finals in the Orlando bubble, the Los Angeles Lakers were the designated road team when they led the Miami Heat by 28 points at halftime (64-36).
• SPURS’ START: The Spurs scored 41 points in the first quarter, tied for the second-most points in the first quarter of an NBA Finals game in the play-by-play era. The highest-scoring Finals first quarter in the play-by-play era is 49 points by the Cleveland Cavaliers against the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 in 2017. … The Spurs scored 76 points in the first half, the second-most points in any half of an NBA Finals game in the play-by-play area. The highest-scoring Finals half in the play-by-play era is 86 points by the Cavaliers against the Warriors in Game 4 in 2017.
• DYLAN HARPER: Harper scored 21 points, tying the highest-scoring NBA Finals game by a rookie reserve since the 1971 Finals (the first year games started were fully recorded). Elden Campbell also scored 21 points off the bench for the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5 of the 1991 NBA Finals against the Chicago Bulls. … Harper now has 300 points in the 2026 NBA Playoffs, becoming the seventh rookie to score 300+ points in a single postseason. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds the record with 352 points in 1970.
