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NEW YORK — It can’t be too easy to try to hype up a crowd that just watched the hometown team get absolutely decimated in the first half of an NBA Finals game. But that’s why you pay professionals like the Wu-Tang Clan, you know?
After the final song of their excellent set, as Wu-Tang exited the floor at Madison Square Garden, Method Man said, “Knicks in five, what y’all talking about?”
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In the moment, that optimism seemed wildly misplaced. The New York Knicks had spent most of the first half on tilt, unmoored, bereft of composure and answers against a San Antonio Spurs team that was running them ragged.
After days of talk about free-throw discrepancies and flagrant fouls that weren’t, the Garden came unglued after Karl-Anthony Towns picked up two fouls in the first 62 seconds of Game 4 — the second of which was initially ruled a foul on newly minted Manhattan nemesis Victor Wembanyama, only to be overturned into an offensive foul after a challenge by San Antonio head coach Mitch Johnson. The Knicks were coming apart at the seams, too, combusting in just about every way possible: meandering offensive possessions, unfocused defensive rotations, empty-gesture physicality that seemed to suggest that, yes, Wembanyama and the Spurs had indeed gotten into their heads.
After giving up a Finals-record 14 first-half 3-pointers, missing eight free throws and logging as many turnovers as assists (seven), the Knicks went into intermission down by 27 points — the largest halftime deficit of any home team in NBA Finals history (excluding the Finals played in the 2020 COVID bubble).
The lead, and the gravity pulling the Knicks down from the soaring heights of taking a 2-0 lead on the road toward a crushing 2-2 tie without home-court advantage, seemed insurmountable. But through Wu-Tang, all things are possible.
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“Had to give ’em a little Wu-Tang prayer, nahmean?” Ghostface Killah told Yahoo Sports.
God must be pretty into Wu-Tang.
What we witnessed in New York on Wednesday night was nothing short of the greatest comeback in NBA history.
Oh, other teams have come back from larger…
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Author : Dan Devine
Publish date : 2026-06-11 07:40:00
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