New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) shoots as San Antonio Spurs guard Stephon Castle (5) defends during the first half of Game 4 of the NBA Finals basketball series, Monday, June 8, 2026, in New York. (Al Bello/Pool Photo via AP)

NEW YORK — The New York Knicks made a record comeback from 29 points down and moved to the brink of their first championship since 1973 by beating the San Antonio Spurs 107-106 on Wednesday night.

OG Anunoby tipped in the miss of Jalen Brunson’s long 3-point attempt with 1.2 seconds remaining to complete the rally, giving the Knicks a 3-1 lead and three chances to win the championship.

It looked impossible early, when the Spurs rolled to a 27-point halftime lead. But Brunson helped bring the Knicks back with 36 points and Anunoby finished with 33.

Game 5 is Saturday night in San Antonio.

No team had come from more than 24 points down in a finals game, when Boston did it against the Lakers in 2008, since the NBA began keeping detailed play-by-play for all four quarters in 1997. The Spurs pushed their lead to 81-52 in the third quarter.

For all the shots Victor Wembanyama hit to get the San Antonio Spurs to the NBA Finals, the series is beginning to be defined by a few of his misses.

After clanking his shot off the rim at the buzzer on what would have been the Game 2 winner, Wembanyama did the same on two key free throws late in Game 4.

With the chance to put his team up by three with 1:47 left, he instead went 0 for 2, and the New York Knicks took the lead and went on to win 107-106 on OG Anunoby’s tip-in with 1.2 seconds left.

“We believed in the process and chipped away one shot at a time,” Brunson told ESPN.

Wembanyama and the Spurs are now facing elimination, down 3-1 in the best-of-seven series. It mattered little that the 7-foot-4 big man from France scored 24 points and had 13 rebounds.

It matter more that the Knicks held Wembanyama to eight points after halftime on the way to rallying from 29 points down, the largest comeback in finals history.

“We just saww the dumbest basketball team in the history of civilization,” ESPN analyst Charles Barkley told a national audience after the game. “We saw they had a 25-point lead and took eight straight threes. That was some of the most mismanaged stupid basketball I’ve ever seen.”