Marquette In The 2026 NBA Playoffs: Finals Edition

Hey, remember when the New York Knicks lost two playoff games to the Atlanta Hawks??

It’s true! They were down 2-1 in that series after a 109-108 loss in Game 3, which was back on April 23rd.

THEY HAVEN’T LOST SINCE!

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Three straight against the Hawks to win that series 4-2, then a sweep of Philadelphia and a sweep of Cleveland in the Eastern Conference Finals! 11 straight wins, and now the Knicks are back in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999!

Unfortunately for our purposes here at Anonymous Eagle, OUR GUY Tyler Kolek only played nine total minutes against Cleveland in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. That seems a little weird because as we discussed in the preview/schedule post for that series, the Knicks are undefeated at 8-0 in the playoffs when head coach Mike Brown puts Kolek on the floor but now just 4-2 when Kolek does not play. GET IT TOGETHER, MIKE BROWN!

In fairness to Mike Brown, he’s the guy steering the ship on the best 10 game point differential in NBA history, regular season or playoffs…. and that margin is NOT CLOSE.

We should note that Kolek had eight points, a rebound, and an assist in eight minutes in New York’s 130-93 demolition of the Cavaliers in Game 4. That game was so lopsided that when it went to the half with the Knicks up 68-49, the Inside The NBA crew spent intermission openly discussing how much the Cavaliers had quit, up to and including an on screen stat package titled “QUITTING TIME.” That’s a yikes!

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Anyway, the Knicks are in the NBA Finals, and after Saturday night’s Game 7, we know that they’ll be facing the San Antonio Spurs, making it a rematch of the 1999 NBA Finals. The Spurs went 62-20 in the regular season, which earned them the #2 seed in the Western Conference, and for the purposes of this series, that means San Antonio will have home court advantage in the Finals since New York was 53-29.

The Spurs got to the Finals by beating Portland, Minnesota and Oklahoma City in the Western Conference playoffs, which does mean that they beat the #1 seeded Thunder 4-3 in the conference finals and thus dethroned the reigning NBA…

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Publish date : 2026-06-02 14:45:00

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