New York Knicks

After Game 4 of the NBA Finals saw them choke away a 29-point lead at the Garden, the Spurs again let a double-digit lead slip away with an ugly second half on Saturday night, particularly a bad fourth quarter, in their season-ending 94-90 loss at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio.

A simple “Bang!” wouldn’t have done it justice. Mike Breen, ESPN’s lead broadcast voice for the NBA Finals and the voice of the Knicks for MSG Network, got to make arguably the biggest call of his play-by-play career on Saturday night.

Some Knicks fans who planned to go to San Antonio are going miss their chance to witness history in person. Raucous and eager Knicks fans were set to take off on an American Airlines flight from LaGuardia Airport to Austin at 12:30 p.m. ET to potentially watch the Knicks clinch their first NBA Finals title in 53 years, but that will not happen anymore for at least some of them, according to a Knicks fan account on X.

The euphoric — and even legally problematic at times — celebrations by Knicks fans from the average Joes to Hollywood A-Listers on Wednesday night and into early Thursday morning provided just a brief preview of the mayhem that may descend upon New York City should the Knicks wrap up this series.

Some extra attention has been brought to Karl-Anthony Towns’ deflection on the final play of Wednesday’s miracle Knicks win after it appears he motioned to the fans sitting courtside to crowd Spurs rookie Dylan Harper for the critical inbounds pass.

New York’s new hero, OG Anunoby, sat at his locker, alone, icing both knees, looking through his phone as if the day had just begun, as if he didn’t just create one of the most iconic moments in the history of the most iconic arena, as if he didn’t yet realize his name will be lifted to the rafters with one more win.