The Spurs are 2.5-point road dogs and the moneyline sits at +113, which is basically the market telling you it doesn't really believe New York is two games better than San Antonio. The total is 215.5, in line with the 105-95 and 105-104 grinders the first two games turned into. Whatever you expected from a Wembanyama-Brunson Finals, it probably wasn't sub-110 rock fights.
Game 2 ended on the worst possible note for San Antonio. Wembanyama tried to swing a pass to Stephon Castle, who had already turned upcourt, and the ball hit Castle in the back. Brunson scooped it, drew the foul, hit the go-ahead free throw with 9.5 seconds left, then Wemby's last look rattled out. A 14-point fourth-quarter lead, gone. Now they fly to MSG down 0-2 and staring at a Knicks team that has won 13 straight playoff games.
Wembanyama has been the best player on the floor for stretches — 26 and 12 in Game 1, 29 in Game 2 — but he's also shot 6-for-21 in the opener and coughed up the game in the closing seconds of the second. Brunson is 19-for-56 across the two games and the Knicks are still up 2-0, which tells you everything about how Karl-Anthony Towns (21 and 13 in Game 2) and Mikal Bridges (20-6-6) have shown up. New York doesn't need Brunson to be efficient. He just has to be there at the end.
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The history bit you'll hear on the broadcast: only the 1993 Bulls and 1995 Rockets have ever won the first two on the road in a Finals and gone on to lift the trophy. The Knicks are now the third. MSG hasn't hosted a Finals game in a generation, the cheap seats were running close to five figures on the resale market, and the building is going to be absurd. If San Antonio loses this one, you can start writing the parade route. If they steal it, suddenly the line on Game 4 looks a lot more interesting.