GAME 3: SPURS 115, KNICKS 111
• ROAD RULE: The road team has won the first three games of an NBA Finals series for just the second time. The only other instance came in the 1993 Finals, when Chicago won Games 1 and 2 in Phoenix before the Suns won Game 3 in Chicago.
• STREAK SNAPPED: The Knicks’ 13-game winning streak ended. It ranks as the second-longest winning streak in a single postseason in NBA history, trailing only the 2016-17 Warriors’ 15-game streak. …. The Knicks went 46 days between losses, from April 23 to June 8.
• VICTOR WEMBANYAMA: Wembanyama (32 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists) is the second-youngest player to record 30+ points, 5+ rebounds and 5+ assists in an NBA Finals game (22 years, 155 days old), trailing only Magic Johnson (20 years, 276 days old). … Wembanyama is the first opposing player to record 30+ points, 5+ rebounds and 5+ assists in an NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden. … Wembanyama has posted the most blocked shots in a player’s first postseason (70) since blocks were first recorded in the 1973-74 season, passing Dikembe Mutombo (69 in 1994).
• YOUNG DUO: Victor Wembanyama (32 points) and Stephon Castle (23 points) are the first pair of teammates age 22 or younger to each score 20+ points in an NBA Finals game.
• GAME 3 NOTE: With San Antonio’s victory, teams that lose the first two games of an NBA Finals series are now 23-15 in Game 3.
• 42-POINT OUTBURST: The Knicks scored 42 points in the second quarter, tied for the third-most points in any quarter of an NBA Finals game in the play-by-play era. The record in the play-by-play era is Cleveland’s 49-point first quarter against Golden State in Game 4 of the 2017 Finals.
• FINALS BACK AT MSG: The NBA Finals returned to Madison Square Garden for the first time in 27 years. The last Finals game at MSG took place on June 25, 1999, when the Spurs defeated the Knicks 78-77 in Game 5 to clinch their first NBA championship.
