Victor Wembanyama may want one of his postgame comments back after his San Antonio Spurs squandered yet another lead in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, as the New York Knicks won their first NBA title since 1973.
During his postgame press conference following the Knicks' 94-90 win in San Antonio on Saturday, Wembanyama was asked what he learned during his team's 4-1 series loss, specifically how difficult it is to win an NBA title.
While Wembanyama's answer started just fine, with him addressing the margin of error being extremely small, he went on to make a claim about the Spurs dominating that he probably could have kept to himself.
"One of the many things I learned was that the margin of error is very, very thin," Wembanyama explained. "Our domination stints are absolute. We absolutely dominated for most of the series, but our errors, our mistakes, are punished so hard that we can't have ups and downs like this so much."
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Wembanyama may not be wrong with his claim about the Spurs dominating much of the series, but saying it after your team loses said series 4-1 after losing all three games on its home floor is never going to come across well. It certainly isn't going to lead you to receiving the benefit of the doubt.
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The Spurs held at least a 12-point lead in each of the five games of the series, with Game 3 being the lone contest they were able to take against New York.
While the Knicks clinched the series in Game 5, it was Game 4 that the NBA world will remember forever, and the one you can't help but circle as the moment New York grabbed a complete stranglehold of the series.
The Spurs jumped out to a 29-point lead in Game 4 at Madison Square Garden before turning into a shell of themselves, somehow managing to give up the massive lead and hand the Knicks the largest comeback in NBA Finals history.
Following the Game 4 collapse from San Antonio, many guaranteed that the series was already over, and those people were proven right on Saturday night with the Knicks ending a 53-year drought and hoisting the Larry O'Brien Trophy.