The NBA Made a Massive Blunder With the Spurs-Knicks Finals
The NBA Finals have been awesome so far.
The New York Knicks have a 2-0 lead over Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs, but both games have come down to the wire with the more experienced Knicks taking advantage of mistakes from the young Spurs.
We are now shifting the stage to Madison Square Garden, the Basketball Mecca, where we are two wins away from watching if Manhattan can withstand a New York Knicks championship.
It’s going to be a circus in Game 3, with Knicks fans doing their best to put the Spurs on the brink of elimination and, for all intents and purposes, checkmate the Texas franchise.
Karl-Anthony Towns is changing his entire career narrative and is on the verge of winning the NBA Finals MVP. Jalen Brunson is about to be named a deity in Manhattan. Mike Brown is about to flip the script on how the basketball world sees him.
Can Wembanyama shake off a tragic mistake at the end of Game 2 and make the series competitive again, or will his youth be his undoing in a lesson taught by the Knicks?
All of that sounds awesome, which is perfect for a weekend game.
Except there is no game on the weekend. The series picks up on Monday, when the world is salivating for a Game 3 on the weekend.
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For the first time in years, the NBA Finals are the main course dish of the North American sports world. Even with the Stanley Cup Finals featuring an equally great (or even greater) series, the storylines can’t touch what is going on with the Knicks right now, winners of 13 straight.
Yet there is no Game 3 on the weekend.
And as next week begins, there’s also another gigantic elephant in the room: the World Cup.
While New York and San Antonio fans don’t care if the Olympics, World Cup, and Christmas were all happening next week, the focus of the sports world is about to shift for the next two months.
Especially if it’s a 3-0 series and fans start checking out that it’s already over, the NBA Finals could go from front page news to page six in the blink of an eye.
This is the last weekend the NBA will have full control of the sports calendar, and there’s nothing.
For the Knicks, though, they already have a plan in place: win Monday and Wednesday, hoist the trophy, and celebrate even before the World Cup kicks off from Mexico on Thursday.
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This story was originally published June 7, 2026 at 8:28 PM.