Knicks Comeback Wins In NBA Finals
Game 1 - Trailed By 14 With 6:31 Left In 3rd
Game 2 - Trailed By 14 With 5:59 Left In 4th
Game 4 - Trailed By 20 With 9:33 Left In 4th
Game 5 - Trailed By 10 With 7:43 Left In 4th
Knicks went 53 years between titles. Only teams in NBA/MLB/NHL/NFL to go longer between 2 titles:
Cubs 108 years (1908-2016)
White Sox 88 years (1917-2005)
Boston Red Sox 86 years (1918-2004)
Twins/Senators 63 years (1924-1987)
Eagles 57 years (1960-2017)
SF/NY Giants 56 years (1954-2010)
New York Rangers 54 years (1940-94)
Most points in an NBA Finals series-clinching game:
Giannis Antetokounmpo (2021 Game 6) 50
Bob Petit (1956 Game 6) 50
Jalen Brunson (2026 Game 5) 45
Michael Jordan (1998 Game 6) 45
Knicks win their first NBA Championship since 1973
Yoshinobu Yamamoto perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 8th via Mookie Betts error
He had retired 45 consecutive batters; tied for the 2nd longest streak in MLB history
Lightning Nikita Kucherov & Andrei Vasilevskiy are the first teammates to win the Hart Trophy & Vezina Trophy in the same season on multiple occasions (also won in 2018-19) since the Canadiens Guy Lafleur & Ken Dryden (1976-77 & 1977-78)
#GoBolts
Shane Bieber's night is done after 5 innings and 62 pitches, 46 strikes...5.0 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO. Struck out back-to-back batters in the top of the fifth. 3-0, BUF. T6
Lightning Nikita Kucherov wins the Hart Trophy over Connor McDavid by 10 points
This is the closest Hart Trophy vote since 2001-02 when Jose Theodore tied Jarome Iginla on points
(Theodore had more 1st place votes)
The Knicks trailed by 17 points with less than 9 minutes to go.
Entering today, teams were 0-96 when trailing by 17 points in the final 9 minutes of regulation of a Finals game since 1970-71.
The Knicks have just made that 1-96.