The New York Knicks, who held off San Antonio in another instant NBA Finals classic to take a 2-0 lead in the championship series, are expecting the Spurs’ best shot in game three on Monday.
“Every single day we chip away and try to be the best that we can be,” Knicks star Jalen Brunson said after New York held off the Spurs 105-104 on Friday to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Finals. The Knicks are just the third team — after Michael Jordan’s 1993 Chicago Bulls and the 1995 Houston Rockets — to win the first two games of the Finals on the road, and both those teams went on to lift the trophy. But Brunson and the Knicks won’t allow themselves to celebrate too soon despite the frenzy their success has sparked in New York City. “Even with the series (the way) it is now, next game, mindset has to be 0-0 again,” Brunson said. “It’s just how it has to be. You can’t be comfortable. You can’t be satisfied with anything. “Just got to continue to push forward.” The Knicks have won 13 straight playoff games — the second-longest post-season streak ever — to close in on their first championship since 1973.