From up 2-0 to on the brink — and then OG changed everything.
Unbelievable.
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Remember who you shared it with.
Remember this moment forever.
This will live forever.
Not just in Knicks history. Not just in NBA history. In sports history.
What unfolded at Madison Square Garden on June 10, 2026, was one of the greatest comebacks ever witnessed — a 29-point rally, the largest in NBA Finals history, capped by a moment destined to be replayed for generations.
Just hours earlier, the Knicks looked headed for disaster. Now, they’re one win away from a championship.
Trailing by one with 5.7 seconds remaining, New York called timeout and put the ball in the hands of Jalen Brunson. Everyone in the building knew who would take the final shot.
What nobody knew was who would save the season.
Brunson’s jumper hit the front rim.
Then came OG Anunoby.
Soaring above Dylan Harper and Devin Vassell, Anunoby rose through traffic and tipped the ball back toward the basket with his right hand. It dropped through with 1.2 seconds left.
Madison Square Garden erupted.
The Spurs never even got a shot off.
Ballgame.
With one touch, Anunoby delivered what may stand as the most important play in Knicks franchise history, sealing a stunning 107-106 Game 4 victory and giving New York a commanding 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals as the series shifts back to San Antonio.
“That has to be the most iconic shot in the history of New York basketball,” coach Mike Brown said afterward.
Karl-Anthony Towns had an even simpler explanation.
“Right hand from God,” Towns said. “Right hand of God.”
OG Anunoby delivered the defining moment.
The reaction afterward said everything.
“I was about to cry,” Jose Alvarado said.
Given what the Knicks had just accomplished, nobody could blame him.
The Spurs looked unstoppable in the first half, pouring in 76 points and threatening to run New York out of its own building. Then everything changed.
The Knicks held San Antonio to just 30 points after halftime — a staggering 46-point swing, the largest first-half to second-half scoring drop in postseason history.
Defense tightened. Hope returned. Belief spread through the Garden.
And then came the finish.
Long after the final buzzer sounded, thousands of fans remained in their seats, unwilling to leave. They understood what they had witnessed.
Not just a win.
Not just a comeback.
A moment.
The kind that becomes part of a city’s identity. The kind that parents tell their children about years later. The kind that grows larger with every retelling because it was almost too unbelievable to happen in the first place.
For one night, Madison Square Garden wasn’t just hosting an NBA Finals game.
It was hosting history.
And now, with a 3-1 series lead, the Knicks stand one victory away from turning an unforgettable comeback into an unforgettable championship.
Jalen Brunson had spent the night refusing to let the Knicks quit.
After the final buzzer, neither did the fans.
Long after the game ended, Madison Square Garden remained full. Players hugged. Fans cheered. And soon, one song took over the arena.
“Don’t Stop Believin’.”
Tens of thousands of voices sang along in unison as one of the most unforgettable nights in franchise history turned into a celebration.
It felt fitting.
Because belief was all the Knicks had left at one point.
They were down 29. Their season appeared to be slipping away. The Spurs had scored 76 first-half points and looked poised to take complete control of the NBA Finals.
But the Knicks never stopped believing.
Not Brunson.
Not Anunoby.
Not the crowd.
As the song echoed throughout the Garden and the celebration carried on around him, Brunson was asked to describe the night.
His answer captured everything.
One word.
“Belief.”
No speech. No elaborate explanation.
Just belief.
Belief carried the Knicks back from the largest deficit ever overcome in an NBA Finals game. Belief carried them through a second-half defensive masterpiece. Belief carried them to OG Anunoby’s iconic tip-in.
And now, belief has New York standing one win away from a championship.
The Garden sang it long after midnight.
The Knicks lived it.
The game-winning tip-in will be remembered forever.
But OG Anunoby’s masterpiece began on the other end of the floor.
With the Knicks clinging to hope in the closing seconds, De’Aaron Fox appeared to have a clear path to the basket. Instead, Anunoby exploded into the play, chasing him down and swatting away what looked like a go-ahead layup attempt.
It was the defensive play that gave New York one final chance.
Moments later, Anunoby would seize it himself.
For a player known for showing little emotion, even he couldn’t hide his smile afterward.
“We’re a resilient group,” Anunoby said. “We’ve been through a lot. We’ve come back plenty of times when we’re behind.”
No comeback was bigger than this one.
The Knicks were buried early.
They trailed by 19 after the first quarter, the largest first-quarter deficit ever faced by a home team in an NBA Finals game. By halftime, the hole had grown to 27, another unwanted Finals record. The Spurs drilled 14 three-pointers in the first half, the most ever in a Finals half, and stretched the lead to 29 in the third quarter.
Everything pointed toward disaster.
The Knicks looked rattled. They were arguing with officials. They were losing their composure. Victor Wembanyama was controlling the game. Madison Square Garden had gone from anxious to stunned.
And then everything flipped.
The Knicks outscored San Antonio by 12 in the third quarter.
Then by 16 in the fourth.
The Spurs’ offense disappeared. Wembanyama faded into the background. The Garden found its voice again.
Jalen Brunson took over.
OG Anunoby took over.
And together they authored one of the greatest comebacks the NBA Finals has ever seen.
By night’s end, the scoreboard read 107-106.
But the numbers hardly captured what had happened.
The Knicks weren’t supposed to survive.
Instead, they made history.
Jalen Brunson rises for a shot during the Knicks’ historic Game 4 comeback.
“We clearly,” Wembanyama said afterward, “weren’t the hungrier team in the second half.”
The numbers backed him up.
Brunson scored 17 of his game-high 36 points after halftime, while Anunoby poured in 19 of his 33 in the second half and finished 7-for-9 from beyond the arc. Wembanyama, meanwhile, managed just eight points after intermission following a 16-point first half.
The turning point came with 4:34 remaining, when Anunoby buried a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to four. For the first time all night, the comeback felt attainable.
Then Brunson delivered the shot that shook Madison Square Garden.
With 2:21 left, he pulled up from 27 feet and buried a deep 3-pointer over Wembanyama, trimming the Spurs’ lead to just one.
Moments later, De’Aaron Fox threw the ball away, giving the Knicks a golden opportunity. Josh Hart appeared headed for a wide-open breakaway dunk, but lost control in midair and missed the chance to complete the play.
Karl-Anthony Towns pushes the ball up the floor as Victor Wembanyama defends during the first quarter of Game 4.
Then came another opening.
The Knicks sent Wembanyama to the free-throw line with a chance to push the Spurs closer to victory.
Instead, the moment slipped away.
Just as he had in Game 2, Wembanyama faltered under the pressure, missing both free throws and leaving the door open for New York’s comeback to continue.
The Knicks seized it.
“You have to have a little luck in life,” Mike Brown said afterward. “You’ve got to have a little luck in sports. But you can also make your own luck, too.”
On this night, the Knicks did both.
Jimmy Fallon celebrates as Madison Square Garden erupts after the Knicks’ Game 4 victory.
Then came the shot that finally completed the climb.
With 1:22 remaining, Brunson floated in a runner that gave the Knicks their first lead of the night.
After trailing by as many as 29 points, they were suddenly in front.
The drama wasn’t over.
Stephon Castle drew a foul while battling for an offensive rebound and calmly knocked down two free throws with 30.3 seconds left, putting San Antonio back ahead by one. Hart had lost track of Castle on the play, allowing him a free path to the rebound.
Had the Knicks lost, Hart would have spent the summer replaying two moments: the missed breakaway dunk and the costly rebound.
Instead, those plays became footnotes.
Because then came Anunoby.
First, the chase-down block.
Then, the tip-in.
One defensive masterpiece. One iconic finish.
“He saved me,” Hart said afterward, “a lifetime of regret.”
And just like that, everything changed.
The Knicks are one win away from a championship.
Remember the comeback.
Remember the block.
Remember the tip-in.
Remember the night Madison Square Garden witnessed history.
Remember all of it.
