The New York Kickerbockers NBA basketball team just ‘aks’,  (ask) or (pronounced ‘ax’, if you are from NYC), the San Antonio Spurs a very important question after their 105 to 95 victory in game one of the 2026 NBA Finals: How do you like ‘dem apples. 

The strong and talented Knicks demonstate a superior knowledge of how to win and capture home court advantage by coming from 14 points behind and taking a scoring lead advantage in the last minutes of the game. 

 Although it is still early in the series, and anything is possible, the Knicks demonstrated experience does have its benefits at   ‘Crunch Time’!

The Knicks were trailing 14 points in the third quarter.  Then the  Spurs begin their mistake filled down fall from the lead.   The score was tied with two minutes remaining in the game.. Everything was still undetermined.

Suddenly, after Karl – Anthony Towns pushed the Knicks through three and one half quarters of hard fought hang on basketball.  Jalen Brunson, came into the game late in the 4th quarter and began to make buckets.,  in a manner and method unique to his basketball style. 

Earlier in the 1st quarter, Brunson was leg crushed due to his own teammate shoving Stephon Cassel into him.  Brunson was taken briefly to the locker room ,  but returned to the court only minutes later. 

 Before the Spurs woke up out of their period of  silly mistakes at the crucial end of the game minutes,  New York,  in the 4th sent a message.  We can score faster than you, we are a very good basketball team.   

The Knicks made them pay by taking a lead of 8 points late in the game and winning in San Antonio.  The Spursft the court feeling they lost in a game in which they might have  – should have – won.  New York was saying in response to the Spurs: , “Only if buts were candy and nuts”. 

The Knicks team  never relinquished their advantage,  as the Spurs did manage to bounce back to a one point deficiency in the final two minutes.

Jalen Brunson  was the focal point of a complete fundamental basketball team performance presented by the Knicks.