The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs 105-104 in Game Two of the Finals, and the final point came after Victor Wembanyama threw the ball away in the closing seconds. Jalen Brunson, who had tied the game at 104 with an off-kilter jumper, scored the winning point to send New York home with its second straight road win over San Antonio.
That is why the spurs vs knicks next game search is suddenly centered on one result: the Knicks have already taken Game One in San Antonio and now lead the series with two wins on the road. For a team that needed every possession, this one came down to the last mistake, and the Spurs paid for it after Wembanyama had dragged them back into the game with second-half heroics.
Karl-Anthony Towns was the fulcrum of the Knicks’ win, but Brunson owned the final moments. He took the shot that forced the tie, then benefited from the turnover that ended it. It was the kind of finish that can hide a messy night elsewhere and leave the scoreboard to tell the cleanest version of the story.
Bridges sits in the middle of a bigger Knicks story that has followed him since 2023, when New York sent four unprotected first-round picks to the Brooklyn Nets, along with one top-four protected first-round pick from the Milwaukee Bucks, one unprotected pick swap, one second-round pick and Bojan Bogdanović, to bring him in. The price was huge, and the questions were immediate. He had never missed a game in his NBA career, but his value has been judged far less by durability than by whether the deal could lead to the sort of postseason run that justifies it.
That uncertainty has not gone away. Bridges had mixed results before becoming a key contributor during the Knicks’ playoff push last season, then struggled again this year before Mike Brown benched him for part of Game Three against the Atlanta Hawks after rough play through the first three games of the first round. Brown replaced Tom Thibodeau after New York’s loss to the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals, and the new coach now has a roster built around a trade that still asks for proof.
The next game matters because it will show whether the Spurs can respond to a loss they nearly rescued and whether the Knicks can turn a pair of road wins into control of the series. The larger question remains whether Bridges, Brunson and Towns can carry the burden that came with the deal long enough for this run to look like the answer New York was buying.
