"You see that reaction because they think they gon' win it. They think it's over."
Josh Hart spoke about the Knicks watching the Spurs celebrate after beating OKC 👀
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Not even Spike Lee could make a movie that's more inspiring than OG Anunoby's life story 🍿
Born in the UK, Anunoby lost his mom to cancer a year after he was born.
His family moved to Missouri, USA when he was 4 since his father got a job at Lincoln University.
Growing up, Anunoby initially played football to follow in his brother's footsteps.
By the time he was 8, he shifted to basketball because of his height.
He wasn't heavily recruited coming out of high school.
His college coach at Indiana Tom Crean even admitted that he only found out about OG because they saw him at a tournament while scouting another player.
At Indiana, he came off the bench his freshman season.
He was finally named a starter as a sophomore, but after 16 games he tore his ACL.
Despite the injury, OG still declared for the 2017 NBA draft and was taken by the Raptors with the 23rd pick.
Just as OG finally got his big break, his father passed away a year later 😢
When the Raptors won the title in 2019, he had to watch it all unfold from the sidelines as he had to miss the entire postseason due to an emergency appendectomy.
But just as he always has, OG never used his setbacks as an excuse 😤
He was traded to the Knicks in 2023 and secured the bag with a five-year, $212.5 million contract in the offseason.
2 years later, he's an NBA champion and a New York hero.
For everything life threw at him, OG Anunoby could've easily folded.
But instead of breaking, he built himself into a champion 🙌🏆
Jose Alvarado, a kid from New York City, who couldn’t have been further away from the NBA Finals after starting the season with the New Orleans Pelicans is the unsung hero in a game that has put the Knicks on the brink of their first NBA championship since the 70s. What a story.
We just watched the Knicks make the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history! The first and second half were two completely different stories - the Spurs dominated in the first half and Knicks stormed back in the second. Jalen Brunson put the team on his back with his 36-point performance, but OG Anunoby was the true hero tonight, finishing with 33 points AND the game-winning tip in!
De’Aaron Fox made a huge mistake when he got the ball with seconds left in the fourth and decided to go for a layup instead of dribbling the ball out to be fouled. I think the Spurs have another win in them and the Series will stretch out to 6 or 7 games, but I still see the Knicks winning it all.
Jalen Brunson on what it means to turn around an historic Knicks franchise that was struggling before his arrival: “I’ll answer that when I retire. This place means a lot to me, and we’re still writing our story.”
Willie Mays waves to the crowd upon his return to the Polo Grounds to play the Mets in 1962. After the Giants moved west, the Polo Grounds did not have a team until the New York Mets were formed in 62