How the Knicks Are Beating the Spurs

When the book is written on this N.B.A. season—imagine a Dostoyevsky novel—there will surely be a long disquisition on Game One of the Finals, in which the New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs on the road and demonstrated the value of experience, and a chapter on Game Two, a game that seemed to contain a dozen different games, each one more desperate and improbable. And when the story is told of the Knicks’ second-straight win over the Spurs, by a score of 105–104, it will probably feature the usual protagonists: Victor Wembanyama and his sesquipedalian limbs, Jalen Brunson and his unparalleled sense for the moment, Karl-Anthony Towns (Karl-Anthony Towns!) and his powerful versatility.