By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-06-13 22:39:36
周六，拉里·奥布莱恩杯来到了霜冻银行中心球馆。但最终，它被纽约尼克斯队带回了家。
杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 狂砍45分，奠定了自己作为纽约新王的地位。尼克斯队再次在第四节发力，以94-90击败马刺队，夺得了近半个世纪以来梦寐以求的NBA总冠军。
尼克斯队在马刺队的主场捧起了这座期待已久的冠军奖杯。在他们头顶上方，马刺队的五面总冠军旗帜静静悬挂，而这一次，它们没能迎来新的伙伴。
第五场比赛延续了令人沮丧的熟悉剧本。
马刺队在前四场比赛中都曾一度领先达到两位数，且在每场比赛的第四节都保持过领先。
就像双方前四次交手之中的三场一样，马刺队在周六这天再次没能守住优势。而尼克斯队没有给他们机会。
比赛还剩4分48秒时，尼克斯队打出一波10-0的高潮，将比分追至83平。此后，尼克斯队牢牢掌控了局势。
“我们在每场比赛中都曾占据主动，”马刺队前锋凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 说道，“但他们总能找到办法重新咬回比分。这正是令人沮丧的地方。”
随着布伦森一次次挺身而出，而马刺队却无法做出回应，纽约在比赛最后时刻拉开了分差。
比赛还剩1分06秒时，布伦森用一记抛投打破了88平的僵局，帮助纽约取得了自首节开局阶段以来的首次领先。
比赛还剩26.1秒时，乔什·哈特 (Josh Hart) 两罚一中，帮助尼克斯领先3分，但米切尔·罗宾逊 (Mitchell Robinson)——他上场只是因为卡尔-安东尼·唐斯 (Karl-Anthony Towns) 已经犯满离场——抢下了关键的前场篮板。
比赛还剩20秒时，尼克斯第四战在纽约赢球的英雄OG·阿奴诺比 (O.G. Anunoby) 两罚一中，为尼克斯锁定了4分的领先优势。
随着终场哨声响起，尼克斯队的球员们在球场中央紧紧拥抱在一起，疯狂庆祝。
维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 为马刺队贡献了19分、14个篮板和5次盖帽，但马刺队还是遗憾落败，也让20岁新秀迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 全队最高的25分付诸东流。
布伦森在夺冠之战中创下了个人今年季后赛的单场得分新高，并荣膺总决赛最有价值球员（FMVP）。
凭借这场胜利，尼克斯队驱散了阻碍他们近半个世纪的魔咒，夺得了自1973年以来的首个NBA总冠军，这也是该队建队80年历史上的第三座总冠军奖杯。
这场失利也结束了马刺队自2019年以来的首次季后赛之旅，以及自2014年以来的首次总决赛之旅。
毫无疑问，马刺队本有机会让自己的总决赛之路走得更轻松一些。
他们在前四场比赛中都曾领先达到两位数，且都在第四节保持过领先，但最终却带着1-3的大比分落后回到霜冻银行中心进行第五场对决。
“是我们自己搞砸了，”约翰逊说道。
在第四场比赛中，马刺队在尼克斯的主场一度领先多达29分，但最终却在最后几秒被阿奴诺比补篮绝杀，痛失好局。
随着尼克斯队成功夺冠，阿奴诺比必将在纽约的队史传奇中被奉若神明。
“没有‘OG’，你甚至都拼不出‘上帝’（God）这个词，”尼克斯队中锋唐斯调侃道。
不过，圣安东尼奥人显然无法用同样温和的眼光来看待阿奴诺比。
对于如今败北的马刺队来说，阿奴诺比在第四战中的绝杀球将载入他们季后赛历史的耻辱册，与2013年总决赛第六场雷·阿伦 (Ray Allen) 将比赛拖入加时的三分球、2006年马努·吉诺比利 (Manu Ginobili) 对德克·诺维茨基 (Dirk Nowitzki) 的“2+1”犯规、2004年德里克·费舍尔 (Derek Fisher) 的0.4秒绝杀，以及1990年罗德·斯特里克兰 (Rod Strickland) 脑后传球的致命失误并列。
“没有人会比更衣室里的我们自己更严苛、更懂得承担责任，”马刺队主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 说道。
对于马刺队而言，周六的失利——以及整个总决赛系列赛令人失望的走势——给这个本是俱乐部辉煌历史上最出人意料、最荣耀的赛季画上了一个令人沮丧的句号。
这支年轻的马刺队本不该走到这一步。至少现在还不应该。
赛季开始前，大多数预测者认为他们只能拿到43胜左右，这个成绩顶多让他们去打西部附加赛。
然而，马刺队却赢下了62场比赛，夺得西部第二种子，随后在西部决赛第七场客场掀翻卫冕冠军俄克拉荷马雷霆队，成为有史以来争夺NBA总冠军第二年轻的球队。
对于文班亚马和这群朝气蓬勃的年轻新星来说，他们的未来依然像超新星爆发般璀璨。
周六，当球队在10月新赛季开始前最后一次走下霜冻银行中心的地板，不得不目送尼克斯队庆祝他们创造历史的时刻，马刺队很难感到释怀。
“如此之近，却又如此遥远，”约翰逊说道。
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Knicks, Brunson beat Spurs to win NBA championship
The Larry O’Brien Trophy made its way to the Frost Bank Center on Saturday. It went home with the New York Knicks.
Jalen Brunson cemented himself as the new king of New York, scoring 45 points as the Knicks won another fourth-quarter game to defeat the Spurs 94-90 and claim an NBA championship nearly a half century in the making.
The Knicks clinched their long-awaited title on the Spurs’ home floor, beneath the shadow of the Spurs’ five championship banners that will remain all alone for now.
Game 5 went by a familiar frustrating script.
The Spurs led each of the first four games by double digits at some point. They led in the fourth quarter of each.
As it was in three of the four previous meetings, the Spurs could not hold on Saturday. The Knicks would not let them.
A 10-0 run tied the game at 83-83 with 4:48 to go. The Knicks held on from there.
“We had success in each and every game,” Spurs forward Keldon Johnson said. “They found a way to get back into it. That’s the frustrating part.”
With Brunson making play after the play, and the Spurs unable to answer, New York pulled away at the end.
Brunson broke an 88-88 tie on a floater with 1:06 to play, giving New York its first lead since early in the first quarter.
Josh Hart made one of two foul shots to put the Knicks up by three with 26.1 seconds left, but Mitchell Robinson – only in the game because Karl-Anthony Towns had fouled out – grabbed the offensive board.
O.G. Anunoby – the hero of the Knicks’ Game 4 win in New York – made one of two foul shot to give the Knicks a four-point cushion with 20 ticks to go.
As the final horn sounded, Knicks players met in a celebratory embrace at midcourt.
Victor Wembanyama had 19 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks for the Spurs, who wasted a team-leading 25 points from 20-year-old rookie Dylan Harper.
Brunson was named the Finals MVP after posting his postseason high in the clinching game.
With the victory the Knicks beat back nearly a half-century’s worth of demons, winning their first NBA championship since 1973 and only the third in the franchise’s 80 years of existence.
The loss ended the Spurs’ first playoff run since 2019 and their first Finals trip since 2014.
Goodness knows, the Spurs had their chances to make their lives easier in the series.
They led by double digits in each of the four games, and led in the fourth quarter of the first four games, only to return to the Frost Bank Center for Game 5 in a 3-1 hole.
“We did this to ourselves,” Johnson said.
In Game 4, the Spurs led by 29 points on the Knicks’ home floor and still found the way to blow the game on an Anunoby tip-in in the final seconds.
After the Knicks clinched the title, Anunoby will go down as a deified figure in New York lore.
“You can’t spell ‘God’ without O.G.,” Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns quipped.
Forgive those in San Antonio for thinking of Anunoby in a different light than that.
For the now-vanquished Spurs, Anunoby’s game-winning basket in Game 4 now enters their personal hall of playoff infamy, joining Ray Allen’s overtime-forcing jumper in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals, Manu Ginobili’s and-one foul against Dirk Nowitzki in 2006, Derek Fisher’s 0.4 shot in 2004 and Rod Strickland’s over-the-head turnover in 1990.
“There’s nobody that’s going to be harder on ourselves and accountable to ourselves than the people in the locker room and each other,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said.
For the Spurs, Saturday’s loss – and the disappointing nature of the Finals series as a whole – put a damp capper on what had been one of the most unexpectedly glorious seasons in the club’s storied history.
These young Spurs were not supposed to be here. Not yet anyway.
Entering the season, most prognosticators pegged them for the vicinity of 43 wins, a figure that would have ticketed them for the Western Conference play-in tournament.
Instead, the Spurs won 62 games to claim the No. 2 seed, then bulldozed their way past the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 7 on the road in the Western Conference finals to become the second-youngest team to ever compete for an NBA championship.
For Wembanyama and his merry band of up-and-comers, the future remains as bright as a supernova.
As the team walked off the Frost Bank Center floor Saturday for the final time until October, forced to watch the Knicks celebrate their own making of history, it was difficult for the Spurs to feel that way.
“So close yet so far,” Keldon Johnson said.
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News