{"id":74633,"date":"2026-06-08T23:56:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/nba-finals-wembanyama-silences-gardens-party-as-spurs-beat-knicks-in-game-3\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:56:49","slug":"nba-finals-wembanyama-silences-gardens-party-as-spurs-beat-knicks-in-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/nba-finals-wembanyama-silences-gardens-party-as-spurs-beat-knicks-in-game-3\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA finals: Wembanyama silences Garden\u2019s party as Spurs beat Knicks in Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/jun\/08\/nba-finals-2026-game-3-san-antonio-spurs-v-new-york-knicks-live-buildup\">As it happened: Spurs 115-111 Knicks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>French star leads Spurs to win with 32 points<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Knicks lead best-of-seven series 2-1<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/08\/donald-trump-knicks-spurs-nba-finals-crowd-reaction-boos\">Trump given hostile reception by New York crowd<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The spectacle at Madison Square Garden on Monday night was such that the basketball almost took a back seat to everything else. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/08\/donald-trump-knicks-spurs-nba-finals-crowd-reaction-boos\">The president in the suites<\/a>. The mayor in the crowd. Movie stars along the sideline. The culmination of days of talk over $10,000 tickets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/07\/trump-knicks-spurs-nba-finals-game-3-security\">heightened security and cancelled watch parties<\/a> alongside the anticipation for New York City\u2019s first home NBA finals game since 25 June 1999.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/victor-wembanyama\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> had given New York something fresh to talk about. The San Antonio Spurs snapped the Knicks\u2019 13-game postseason winning streak with a 115-111 victory, playing spoiler to the Garden\u2019s party and cutting the deficit to 2-1 in this year\u2019s finals. Game 4 is Wednesday in New York.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/08\/nba-finals-game-3-knicks-spurs-madison-square-garden\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it happened: Spurs 115-111 Knicks French star leads Spurs to win with 32 points Knicks lead best-of-seven series 2-1 Trump given hostile reception by New York crowd The spectacle at Madison Square Garden on Monday night was such that the basketball almost took a back seat to everything else. The president in the suites. &#8230; <a title=\"NBA finals: Wembanyama silences Garden\u2019s party as Spurs beat Knicks in Game 3\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/nba-finals-wembanyama-silences-gardens-party-as-spurs-beat-knicks-in-game-3\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA finals: Wembanyama silences Garden\u2019s party as Spurs beat Knicks in Game 3\">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-74633","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\/74633","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=74633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}