Knicks vs. Spurs predictions: Who wins the 2026 NBA Finals? Here are our championship picks

Knicks vs. Spurs. 2026 NBA Finals. It’s finally here, and it could be epic.

New York, led by 6-foot-2 star guard Jalen Brunson, is hoping to hang its first championship banner since 1973, while San Antonio, led by 7-4 generational superstar Victor Wembanyama, is seeking to start the NBA’s next dynasty.

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Who has the most at stake in the Finals? Who are the biggest X-factors? And who will ultimately win it all? Our writers weigh in on the must-see matchup.

Knicks or Spurs: More impressive run to the Finals?

Kelly Iko: Spurs. The Knicks have throttled their unfortunate Eastern Conference foes en route to June, but I’m not sure there are any analytics that can quantify the mental fortitude, attention to detail and sheer will to knock off the defending champs, beating them twice at home and withstanding a machine that has left 29 other teams tucked in the fetal position. That the Spurs are this young and have accelerated their timeline this quickly is more impressive.

Dan Devine: Spurs. As hard as it is to go against the team that literally put up the highest point differential of any 11-game stretch in NBA history to get here, I’ll go with San Antonio. As a legendary poet once said, to be the man, you’ve got to beat the man, and the Spurs went into Oklahoma City and won twice — in Game 1 and Game 7 — to knock off the Thunder and punctuate their season-long dominance over the defending NBA champions. I’m not sure it gets more impressive than that.

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Tom Haberstroh: Knicks. The greatest 11-game run in NBA history I think qualifies as prettay …prettay … prettay good. The Spurs beating the defending champs is mighty impressive, but the Thunder were without Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell for much of that series. The way the Knicks have completely done a 180 mid-playoffs is nothing short of magical.

Ben Rohrbach: Spurs. As impressive as New York’s run through the Eastern Conference finals was — 11 straight wins and all — it came against the sixth-seeded Atlanta Hawks, seventh-seeded Philadelphia 76ers and fourth-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers. Meanwhile, San Antonio marched…

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Publish date : 2026-06-03 02:09:00

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