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Following the Knicks’ 94-90 Game 5 victory that earned the franchise its first NBA championship in 53 years, OG Anunoby brought fans a behind the scenes look into the locker room festivities through Instagram live.

Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama ended his press conference with an awkward sign-off after losing to the Knicks, 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, as they won their first title in 53 years.

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.