Spurs snap Knicks' 13-game playoff win streak with Game 3 victory behind Victor Wembanyama's 32 points

The location squad successful the NBA Finals remained winless successful their building, arsenic the San Antonio Spurs took Game 3, 115-11, successful much-needed manner connected Monday nighttime astatine Madison Square Garden.

New York inactive owns the lead, 2-1, successful the series, but the Spurs closed retired acknowledgment to tremendous defense, timely buckets, and forcing the Knicks to spell 2-of-12 from three-point territory successful the 4th quarter. As a result, the Knicks' 13-game playoff triumph streak has been snapped.

Victor Wembanyama, who had a accidental to triumph Game 2 but missed his last shot, finished with 32 points, 8 rebounds and six assists to pb the Spurs.

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Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs reacts during the 2nd 4th against the New York Knicks successful Game Three of the 2026 NBA Finals astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City connected June 8, 2026. (Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)

But it was Wembanyama’s teammates, De’Aaron Fox and Stephon Castle putting successful clutch baskets, to assistance the winning efforts.

The Spurs came retired with a wide determination to acceptable the code connected the road, and it’s what each hoops fans should’ve expected considering wherever the bid stood astatine tip-off. San Antonio owned an 11-point pb aft the archetypal quarter, arsenic Wembanyama scored 9 points connected 4-of-6 shooting, portion Castle was a cleanable 3-of-3 for 7 points.

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But if there’s thing we’ve learned astir the Knicks, they volition equine a comeback nary substance the deficit. And it happened again earlier the extremity of the half.

New York started to get their rhythm, utilizing the sold-out location assemblage astatine Madison Square Garden to their advantage. They closed retired the fractional with a seven-point lead, 64-57, arsenic OG Anunoby dropped 17 points connected 5-of-6 shooting, including 2 made threes and 5 escaped throws made.

Jalen Brunson besides poured successful 15 points, portion Josh Hart, near wide unfastened connected intent by the Spurs, was hitting his 3 pointers for 13 points.

The Knicks had each the momentum heading into the 2nd half, but the Spurs started likewise to the opening of this game. They forced turnovers and capitalized, erasing their seven-point shortage astir immediately.

Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks works against Dylan Harper and Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs during the 3rd 4th successful Game Three of the 2026 NBA Finals astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City connected June 8, 2026. (Al Bello/Getty Images)

Both teams traded buckets, with San Antonio taking a one-point pb into the 4th fourth that was bound to beryllium a heavyweight bout astatine "The Mecca."

This time, though, the Spurs were yet capable to bent connected to their fourth-quarter lead, arsenic the Knicks rapidly got into foul occupation and allowed San Antonio to get into the bonus close away. It was Wembanyama taking vantage of those, portion the Knicks were acold to commencement the quarter.

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San Antonio got the pb up to 8 successful the 4th fourth with 4:50 near to play aft Wembanyama knocked successful 2 much escaped throws, and that was starring to immoderate cardinal antiaircraft plays for the Spurs. The epitome of that was the Knicks trying to determination the shot astir for a three-point attempt, swinging it on the arc. But the Spurs continued to adjacent out, each to extremity with Wembanyama swatting distant Landry Shamet’s layup attempt.

The archetypal clutch handbasket that the Spurs deed came from Castle with 1:53 near successful the 4th quarter. San Antonio owned conscionable a four-point pb and Wembanyama past the shot up with specified seconds near connected the changeable clock. With a bully contention from the Knicks successful Castle’s face, helium buried a heavy three-point connected the helping to get the pb backmost to 7 successful a infinitesimal wherever the Knicks had momentum.

Then, aft Brunson drained the Knicks’ archetypal three-pointer of the 4th to chopped the shortage to three, Fox drained a 15-foot stepback jumper that seemed similar a dagger with 12.2 near successful the game.

Anunoby, who finished with 28 points connected 9-of-12 shooting, kept the Knicks’ hopes live with a 3 of his ain pursuing a timeout to chopped it to 2 with 9.4 left. But Castle buried some escaped throws successful a much-needed concern to adjacent the doorway connected New York.

Karl-Anthony Towns of the New York Knicks defends Stephon Castle of the San Antonio Spurs during the 2nd 4th of Game 3 successful the 2026 NBA Finals astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City connected June 8, 2026. (Al Bello/Getty Images)

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In the end, Castle finished with 23 constituent of 8-of-14 shooting with 5 rebounds and 5 assists, portion each Spurs starter finished the crippled with double-digit points. Dylan Harper, who has played tremendous seat minutes for San Antonio, besides scored 13 connected 18 changeable attempts.

For the Knicks, 1 stat enactment that stands retired is Shamet’s 1-of-8 from the field, including 1-of-7 from three-point onshore wherever helium has thrived each passim these playoffs.

The Spurs pulled disconnected the triumph with President Donald Trump successful attendance. He was seated with Knicks proprietor James Dolan successful a suite. The president's beingness led to heightened information astir the arena passim the day and into the evening.

Game 4 of the NBA Finals volition extremity disconnected from Madison Square Garden connected Wednesday nighttime astatine 8:30 p.m. ET.

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