{"id":2302,"date":"2026-06-03T15:36:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:36:58","slug":"game-1-spurs-and-knicks-set-to-open-the-nba-finals-on-wednesday-night-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"Game 1: Spurs and Knicks set to open the NBA Finals on Wednesday night in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 For the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks, Game 1 of the NBA Finals might feel like old times.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2300\">FBI personnel have fatally shot a man holding hostages in Bakersfield, California, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the Knicks\u2019 ninth time in the title series, and the eighth time they\u2019ve played Game 1 on the road. It\u2019s the Spurs\u2019 seventh time in the title series, and the sixth time they\u2019ve played Game 1 at home.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, a good amount of time has passed for both teams since they\u2019ve been on this stage: The Knicks haven\u2019t played in the finals since losing to the Spurs in 1999, and the Spurs haven\u2019t been there since beating the Miami Heat in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re just locked in and focused on the task at hand,\u201d Knicks forward Josh Hart said. \u201cThen we can look back when everything is all said and done and really embrace this process and this run. It\u2019s an honor, but can\u2019t focus too much on the outside world and the run so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The run the Knicks are on coming into this series is without compare: 11 straight wins by a total of 262 points, the most lopsided 11-game run \u2014 regular season or playoffs \u2014 in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2299\">US says it plans extra tariffs of 10% or more for most trading partners after forced labor probe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Spurs have a different kind of streak going into Wednesday night. They\u2019ve never lost Game 1 of the NBA Finals, going 6-0 in openers when they make the title round.<\/p>\n<p>Most players on both teams are making their finals debuts in this series. Spurs guard De\u2019Aaron Fox said it\u2019s still going to be important for his team to remember how they got to the finals in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a hard thing to do. It\u2019s hard to get back to these places,\u201d Fox said. \u201cDon\u2019t change anything that we\u2019re doing. There\u2019s a reason that we\u2019re in the finals. There\u2019s a reason that we won (62) games. There\u2019s a reason we didn\u2019t lose three games in a row the whole year. 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