{"id":74415,"date":"2026-06-03T23:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/nba-finals-brilliant-brunson-leads-surging-knicks-to-victory-over-spurs-in-game-1\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:56:37","slug":"nba-finals-brilliant-brunson-leads-surging-knicks-to-victory-over-spurs-in-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/nba-finals-brilliant-brunson-leads-surging-knicks-to-victory-over-spurs-in-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA finals: Brilliant Brunson leads surging Knicks to victory over Spurs in Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/jun\/03\/nba-finals-2026-game-1-new-york-knicks-san-antonio-spurs-live-score\">New York Knicks 105\u201395 San Antonio Spurs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Knicks guard leads way with 30 points<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The New York Knicks entered Game 1 of this year\u2019s NBA finals on one of the hottest streaks in playoff history: 11 games won in a row with opponents humiliated, humbled and crushed along the way. On Wednesday night in San Antonio many believed that streak would end as they faced the Spurs, who had knocked out the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder in the previous round, and are led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/01\/victor-wembanyama-san-antonio-spurs-nba-finals\">the most exciting player in the world<\/a>, Victor Wembanyama.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks won anyway, keeping Wembanyama quiet for long stretches in a 105-95 victory on the Spurs\u2019 home court. They are now just three wins from their first title since 1973.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/03\/nba-finals-game-1-knicks-spurs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Knicks 105\u201395 San Antonio Spurs Knicks guard leads way with 30 points The New York Knicks entered Game 1 of this year\u2019s NBA finals on one of the hottest streaks in playoff history: 11 games won in a row with opponents humiliated, humbled and crushed along the way. On Wednesday night in San &#8230; <a title=\"NBA finals: Brilliant Brunson leads surging Knicks to victory over Spurs in Game 1\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/nba-finals-brilliant-brunson-leads-surging-knicks-to-victory-over-spurs-in-game-1\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA finals: Brilliant Brunson leads surging Knicks to victory over Spurs in Game 1\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}