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2026 NBA Playoffs NBA Finals: Knicks vs. Spurs Game 4 – Time to Restore Order

The San Antonio Spurs screwed up the Knicks’ 13-game-winning streak, but that won’t really matter so long as the Knicks pull this one off tonight.

A 3-1 lead, with Game 6 back in the Garden as a backup? That would be such a back-breaker that I would truly expect for the Knicks to just take it in five if they break the Spurs’ back tonight.

Mike Brown fought for his team with the refs, and that will hopefully bring about a closer called game tonight. Heck, maybe the KNICKS can get the benefit of the call tonight, and maybe the SPURS can get into foul trouble for a change.

The Spurs did a nice job both A. adjusting to the Knicks, but, more importantly, B. going to the basket a lot more. Hopefully the young, dumb Spurs will forget to do that in Game 4, and the Knicks can start more fast breaks on the Spurs’ bricks, as the Spurs brick so many shots.

It would be nice if the Knicks don’t fall behind double digits in the first quarter again. The Spurs fall apart as the game goes on and their energy tails off, so not being down 10 when that happens would be a huge help. At the end of close games, the Spurs often look like no one knows what a set play is, so I would definitely feel good about the Knicks if it is a close game late, but I wouldn’t mind the Knicks blowing them out, too.

Let’s go, Knicks!

Just two more wins to go!

Fuck Wemby!

272 replies on “2026 NBA Playoffs NBA Finals: Knicks vs. Spurs Game 4 – Time to Restore Order”

Let’s do this. Confidence strong. Let’s get tough. Wemby wants tough? Let’s fn fight back

Beating the Spurs will be even more sweet with that smug, disingenuous, dirty fuck Wemby on the losing side.

Let’s go Knicks!!!!

Lets Fucking Crush the Spurs and stop all the fucking talk and analyses. Just a fucking curb stomp of a win

This guy in the white hair has to be aware if Hubert is at MSG or not !!! 😀

My hope is that hand checks get called and thusly win by 40 on that alone

If not, BLOOD AND BONE

Let’s go Knicks!

A good start will go a long way, as will a punch to the face to Wemby and Dolan. The second one has nothing to do with the game, I just want to beat the living shit out of that man so he shuts up.

Someone threaten his band!

This game will likely decide the series. The Knicks need to prove they are champions tonight.

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Okay, so this dude is a regular guy for the Knicks. That’s good, then.

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Yeah it’s the same guy singing the anthem? Maybe they felt bad for him having to sing in front of Trump and people booing?

I think I could listen to Avery Wilson sing just about anything.

I believe he’s sung it every game during the playoffs. I think they said something about that last game.

This team has made me proud to be a Knicks fan.

Into the breach, once more.

Let’s Go Knicks!

Last game i was calm and it didn’t go well, this time i’m super anxious again… 😉 😀

I believe he’s sung it every game during the playoffs. I think they said something about that last game.

That’s what I was hoping for last time, and yeah, it seems to be the case. That’s good.

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It would also help to change the foul situation by not fouling on the first play.

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Watch, it’s gonna be two fouls on Towns in the first minute.

Turning this shit off. It’s so blatant

They are going to call that on KAT? Wemby is keeping his hand under his arm on purpose. Come on now.

KAT did not touch Fox and was fouled on the drive by Wemby.

Result will be two fouls on KAT.

I’m out

Spurs guard (couldn’t see who it was) held KAT’s jersey for about 4 steps on his first basket, and that was right after they called a touch foul on him

ALREADY refs in the spotlight!

How do you challenge this early??? Mitch Johnson making sure they’re on his side? Fuck you bitch

They overturn this people are going to be really irrationally pissed off

Nah, KAT wasn’t holding Wemby’s arm there, Wemby was trying to sell a foul.

We are watching a semi fixed sport. I can no longer respect this league. After close to 60 years, it’s time for me to find a new favorite sport.

WEMBY KEPT HIS ARM THERE ON PURPOSE. THEY ARE STEALING THE GAME FROM US AGAIN.

How do you challenge this early???

It gives the Knicks’ starting center two fouls. Of course you challenge it.

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Yeah guys this is fixed.

I’m sorry we went so far and this happened, but we are not going to be allowed to win this game.

This is not a sport.

This is what I have been saying for days. It’s a farce.

I love you all but I’m out on the NBA.

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Anything but a dunk or layup near the basket is too hard for the Spurs. It’s kind of fucking hilarious. But annoyingly, they’re hitting their wide open threes to start (that’ll change).

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I’m starting to agree with Hubert, Breen said nothing about the challenge but could see Mikal almost committing a backcourt violation !?!?

It’s a day ending in Y, so the Knicks are down ten in the first quarter of the Finals.

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I will check back in later but I fear if I keep watching right now I’m going to give myself an ulcer

Why can’t this team play well at home? We’re way better on the road for some reason.

This is fucking rigged. Towns was clearly the gameplan to start the game and now we don’t know what to do.

I can’t stand this shit anymore

Refs cooked this, didn’t have the balls to make them lose the challenge… because GOLDEN BOY !! Come the f*ck ON !!!

But we’re winning this game, i’m sure of that… this will light a fire under our team!

Listen man this has nothing to do with MSG or anything else. This is not a legitimate sport.

I’m starting to agree with Hubert, Breen said nothing about the challenge but could see Mikal almost committing a backcourt violation !?!?

Company man.

And we know what the company wants.

Look, I hate to say this. But at some point someone on this team is gonna need to do something tough that noones gonna like but is gonna be deserved.

Take out Wemby’s knees or whatever. Not because I want the Knicks to win but because fuck the NBA.

Break both his knees, it’s okay:

I believe that this team can overcome the refs.

We will see if they do.

I want many solid screens set on Wemby. Run through him hard on every screen he sets.

It impossible to play well when the refs call 2 fouls within one minute of the game on your second best player who also happens to play the same position as the best player on the other team. Shit is fucking rigged.

Refs gonna try to extend. We know that walking in the door. Our guys playing not to lose.

No, I lied, I’m going to go read a book.

It’s one thing if the Spurs were being the better team and beating us. But the refs gaming things is unconscionable.

I might see what the score is at half time. But I can’t watch this farce.

Breen again against the Knicks “it appears OG was going to pass the ball”

Just like clockwork, the Spurs open a big lead, the Knicks close said lead.

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It is just absolutely hilarious that the Spurs keep taking these jumpers that THEY CANNOT HIT.

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This is the kind of force they need to play with. The passive dribble over half court turn the ball over type shit isn’t going to fly.

Johnson was gonna challenge that but then he realized the foul wasn’t on Wemby

we are wilting to the ball pressure. tyler kolek emergency ripcord is in play.

This is obviously true, but anyone would if defenders can hand check all the time.

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Look, these guys take the lead first thing and after the half because they are just more athletic. But if those early runs don’t get out of hand, we should beat them once they tire out a bit.

I can’t believe I wasted so much of my life watching this league.

They will never get a penny out of me again as long as I live

They will never get a penny out of me again as long as I live

I’m mad, but in my case they will because i love the Knicks.

In addition to everything they can’t miss. 5-6 from deep.

As Simmons noted the other day, the one big worry was that the Spurs would have one of those “hot from three” games.

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They shoot well because we are SOFT. We don’t press them, don’t make them think twice, or leave them wide open. Unacceptable!

They shoot well because we are SOFT. We don’t press them, don’t make them think twice, or leave them wide open. Unacceptable!

They definitely leave them wide open way too much, even for shitty three point shooters.

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I’m not going to make it through this.

This is beyond what I can handle. They are mauling Brunson away from the ball and he can’t get a call and any ticky tac against them gets called?

So Keldon Johnson raises his arm admitting the foul and then goes complain to the ref, this should be an automatic tech

Announcers not quite connecting the dots that Bridges picked up two quick (nonsense) fouls last game and KAT picked up two quick (nonsense) fouls this game.

NYC is a pretty resourceful town. Where is our super cut of all this trash refereeing.

They shoot well because we are SOFT. We don’t press them, don’t make them think twice, or leave them wide open. Unacceptable!

We have our fucking garbage time players playing in the first quarter because the officials decided they are just going to rape us.

Nice block by Mitch, and awesome hustle by Alvarado on that tieup!

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Now we don’t get a goaltending call?

They get away with an offensive goal tending?

I’m surprised they haven’t started throwing things at the refs yet.

And they miss an offensive interference. This is insane. Pull the team from the court.

That was a tricky offensive interference call. I legit don’t know the answer to that one. Can the refs look at that one later? Like when they change threes to twos?

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They keep this bullshit up, they might actually get a riot at the Garden.

They missed a defensive goaltend at one end and an offensive goaltend at the other.

Refereeing in this series is already histrionically bad. Unfortunately, the Knicks are on the receiving end.

Weird thing I don’t think I ever really thought of. If you get fouled on a shot attempt, and don’t make it, is it a missed field goal?

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What in the fuck is happening
A missed goaltend followed by a missed offensive goaltend? Are you fucking kidding me?

Way to say something about that forearm shiver Harper used to create space Mike Breen you craven piece of shit Disney whore

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Guess I’ll have to get into college ball, which is annoying with all the money and transferring going on now. Maybe I’ll have to like (sigh) football again.

Mike Breen

Breen can’t say much. He’s the Knicks daily announcer. He’s wary of being looked at as a homer. And he’s basically a positive guy all around.

Okay, as Bob noted, if they call this a flagrant, you might get a legit riot.

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Knicks should be fucking embarrassed by the way the Spurs are just toying with them at MSG.

Only thing worse than than the refereeing is the way Knicks are playing.

Agree 100%, but have in mind that refereeing affects their psychology.

If they call this a flagrant I’m turning it off

It’s a legitimate flagrant, but not in light of so many other calls that weren’t.

Wemby is losing 10s of millions of endorsement dollars with this performance.

Knicks are awful today. Completely lost their cool. I didn’t expect this from them.

The officials threw down the gauntlet in the first minute of the game. They were not going to take any chances of this being competitive.

We’ll never know how this series might have turned out.

Wemby probably wont mind when he’s holding up the Larry O’Brien trophy next week…

What was the difference between that and Castle’s forearm to Brunson?

Castle is a Globtetrotter. Robinson is a General.

Eight maybe ten dubious calls and the indignity is listening to how “well” the Spurs are playing.

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Knicks are awful today. Completely lost their cool. I didn’t expect this from them.

How can you keep your cool with this refereeing??

Wemby is losing 10s of millions of endorsement dollars with this performance.

Don’t bet on it.

How can you keep your cool with this refereeing??

Because it’s been like this the whole series, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

They’re just playing like shit.

Spurs shot 65% including 6 for 10 from 3 in the 1st quarter, I’d say they’re playing pretty damn well.

They don’t make their open shots it doesn’t matter how shitty the refs are.

There is no way to justify a 41pt quarter. That having been said, the refs butchered us in San Antonio with the second game being worse than the first. Now they repeat exactly the same on our own court. This quarter was beyond belief. I don’t know what to say.

I’m done. There’s been so much one sided officiating it makes me sick. I just can’t watch this bullshit anymore.

Because it’s been like this the whole series, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

They’re just playing like shit.

Tonight is even worse, they’re human just like us. Of course i’d like them to keep their cool, but i’m not mad at them, it’s not their fault.

We’ve lost our composure but honestly I can’t blame them. This is unbearable to deal with. More than 5, maybe close to 10 bad calls. Refs and Silver want to extend the series but maybe they just want to crown Wemby now

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Up 2-1 and playing like we’re completely not capable of being on the floor with these guys.

Spurs shot 65% including 6 for 10 from 3 in the 1st quarter, I’d say they’re playing pretty damn well.

Fuck off, Al, no one needs to hear this!

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Well sure, take our best player out of the game and then “miss” double digit amounts of calls and sure, it gets a lot easier to “play” “basketball.”

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I’d say they’re playing pretty damn well.

Yes. Against Ariel Hukporti and Jeremy Sochan.

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Spurs shot 65% including 6 for 10 from 3 in the 1st quarter, I’d say they’re playing pretty damn well.

But that’s just one side of the story, should they talk about the rest or not?

Just shake off this quarter. It’s over. Start chipping away at it.

We came back from 20 down with 7 minutes left against Cleveland and came back from 20 down twice last year against Boston.

It’s not over as long as we can shake this off mentally.

It’s not just us… a few random comments from the Portland fan site, Blazers Edge:

It’s “almost” like the rules don’t apply to “certain” players

This is getting bad. I wish the NBA would actually hold refs accountable at all. Dock their pay or fire them when they are just this egregious.

I hate that these calls are so blatantly bad that it fuels the idea that the league is fixing the series

The NBA won’t let the Spurs lose

These are comments from Trail Blazers fans!

The guys who couldn’t hit water from a rowboat are now shooting the lights out.

You know what… we got a little too cocky… New York was New Yorking in a really bad way… the universe has decided to humble us for a few days.

We need to play on the road again.

tim legler is the only announcer calling what he sees…jefferson is staying relatively mute…

fucking Mike Breen is selling this shit show…

if James Dolan let’s breen call another knick game for us – he’s the pussy…

yeah, after this series, never hearing his voice again will suit me very well…

It’s not over as long as we can shake this off mentally.

Thing is. For all his turnaround this playoffs, Towns’s weakness is “pity me.” If he goes to that place (and I think his prayer-pass to Alvarado says as much) someone has to slap him on the bench or turn the lights out.

Watching the spurs laugh and cavort in msg is sickening when in any remotely fair officiating situation they’d be getting swept

I can’t believe I’m actually turning a Knicks Finals game off. Thanks, Silver.

You have to love the, “Okay, you’re down 23, we’ll give you a call” bit.

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Somehow get this deficit down to around 12 by halftime to hopefully give ourselves a chance in 2nd half.

Breen glazing Wemby during that stoppage was truly pathetic. I don’t know what’s happened with him but not a great look

What a weird comment from Jefferson. “After 82 games, you’re no longer a rookie.” Okay, weirdo.

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It would behoove the Knicks to actually fucking defend the 3pt line every once in awhile.

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Not watching the rest of the series either.

I didn’t think I can either. This is as bad as the first Miami Dallas finals and the Kings Lakers WCF

Let’s put this around 10 pt deficit on the break

Yes.

PS – we may be forgetting most of the league hates Dolan as much as we do, so …. Championship? Nah bruh.

It would have been nice to just know what we could have done. That’s the part that hurts most. We’ll never know. They just were not going to give us the opportunity to compete.

Hacking Mitch when leading by 25, Spurs are just fucking trolling the Knicks right now.

They’re clearly not going to allow KAT to get on the floor. That was decided at the beginning of the game.

Super smart play by Brunson, but I don’t think it’s going to count.

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Hacking Mitch when leading by 25, Spurs are just fucking trolling the Knicks right now.

Yeah, that’s pretty rough.

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Curious to hear Shaq and Chuck at half. (Maybe the first time I have ever typed/felt that.)

Super smart play by Brunson, but I don’t think it’s going to count.

Yeah, they only decide well when we would be the ones to be favored

The problem about analyzing this game is that it’s so hard to think about how much of their loss of composure is linked to KAT being taken out of the game after 60 seconds.

honestly, I can’t remember watching a span of three games together like this where call after call after call went against us…

in a way where the timing was critical…

betting dollars to donuts (can’t really do that no more I guess):

the refs will even the calls out in the second half, try to facilitate a knick “comeback”…

hoping like heck the first thing out of MB’s mouth once again is the officiating to start the game…

It’s just wild that they would do this after all the stuff about the bad calls after game three.

Sure cyber, I’m still sticking to my prediction before the series started of Knicks in 6!

I could handle fouls called later in the first half but to call those two quick fouls like that on KAT right away.

It’s just wild that they would do this after all the stuff about the bad calls after game three.

I’ll tell you what I think might have happened…

for the first time in NBA history, the refs decided to punish the team that tried to influence the officiating.

They didn’t like being called out and this is their fuck you to us.

We’re also playing like shit and they’re playing great.

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Yes the Spurs are dominating. But what if Wemby had had two quick dubious fouls in the first minute of the game. Now discuss.

Oh. See? Kornet in? Little run. Makes a difference, gentlemen. Point it out.

As soon as KAT picked up his second foul I turned to my wife and said “this game is over, it’s fixed.”

She thought I was overreacting.

Kat getting that non sense second foul ruined the game.

Deuce has been awful and would give Kolek playing time.

Mitch – ahis body might be shot. If you rest him during the regular season and he can’t stand up for a playoff run and his free throw shooting is awful . I think you have to think hard about letting him go if some team wants to spend on him .

I’m going to bed at halftime. Hopefully a miracle happens that I don’t get to see.

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