Inside the numbers: An unbelievable Game 4 between Knicks and Spurs, with tons of numbers to note

The San Antonio Spurs put together one of the best first halves in NBA Finals history.

And then the New York Knicks pulled off the best comeback that the league’s title round has ever seen.

Down 29, the Knicks rallied to beat the Spurs 107-106 on Wednesday night to take a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals. It was the biggest comeback in finals history … and a whole lot of other things happened in Game 4 as well, some that swung the pendulum completely San Antonio’s way and some that wound up letting New York do its share of rewriting the NBA history book as well.

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A look inside the numbers:

A 29-point comeback

Above all else, there was this: The biggest comeback in the finals.

San Antonio 81, New York 52 was the score with 9:40 left in the third quarter. No team had ever rallied from 24 points down in a finals game and won; the Knicks outscored the Spurs 55-25 over the final 21 1/2 minutes to pull this off.

Boston trailed the Los Angeles Lakers by 24 points in Game 4 of the 2008 finals, before winning 97-91 — another 30-point swing, just like what the Knicks pulled off on Wednesday.

There even were records within the record, such as:

— The Knicks were down 27 at the half. The biggest halftime deficit successfully overcome in a finals game was 21 points (41-20) by the Baltimore Bullets over the Philadelphia Warriors on April 13, 1948.

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— The Knicks were down 15 going into the fourth, tying the biggest end-of-three-quarters deficit ever overcome in a finals game. Chicago trailed Portland 79-64 on June 14, 1992.

Only a 1-point lead

The Knicks never led by more than one point and won — the first time any team has done that this season.

The last time it happened, in any game, regular season or playoffs? Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Finals, when Indiana beat Oklahoma City 111-110.

Down 20 (or more), again

There had been three comebacks from 20-point fourth-quarter deficits in the last 30 years of playoff basketball … until three weeks ago, that is.

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The Knicks were down by 22 in the fourth and beat Cleveland in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. They were down by 20 in Game 4 against the…

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Author : TIM REYNOLDS

Publish date : 2026-06-11 04:31:00

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