Overview
- Tipoff is 8:30 p.m. ET at T-Mobile Arena, streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.
- Players on the winning team earn $530,933 each, with $212,373 for the runners-up; two-way players receive half the standard amount.
- Both teams enter 18-7 overall and 5-1 in the tournament, with oddsmakers listing New York as a slight favorite around -2.5.
- Victor Wembanyama returned from a calf strain in the semifinal and is expected to have managed minutes after playing 21 off the bench in the upset of 24-1 Oklahoma City.
- Jalen Brunson scored 40 points in New York’s semifinal win over Orlando, and the Knicks have won five straight and nine of their past 10.