Overview
- The New York Knicks hold a 3-1 series lead and can clinch their first NBA championship since 1973 in Game 5 at Frost Bank Center on Saturday night.
- Mitchell Robinson said his fractured right-hand metacarpal is ‘straight’ and he remains available to play, while Spurs backup Luke Kornet was added to the injury report and is listed questionable with an illness.
- San Antonio’s Victor Wembanyama sits one flagrant point short of an automatic one-game suspension because postseason flagrant points have accumulated through Game 4.
- Ticketmaster limited Game 5 sales to buyers with credit-card billing addresses inside a 150-mile radius of Frost Bank Center to reduce out-of-market attendance.
- New York’s celebrations after Game 4 prompted large police responses and an NYPD investigation into an alleged gang assault that left a 17-year-old in critical condition, fueling tighter security and managed watch parties back in New York.