Victor Wembanyama confident in Spurs comeback despite Game 4 collapse: 'Everybody knows we're going to do it'

The San Antonio Spurs were conscionable a fewer minutes distant from having each the momentum successful the NBA Finals, but it slipped away.

After trailing by arsenic galore arsenic 29 points successful the 2nd fractional and adjacent 20 successful the 4th fourth successful Game 4 connected Wednesday, the New York Knicks completed the largest comeback successful NBA Finals past to instrumentality a 3-1 bid lead, alternatively than being tied astatine 2 heading backmost to Texas.

The Spurs' backs were against the partition erstwhile they dropped the archetypal 2 games of the bid astatine home, but they salvaged a triumph successful Game 3 by coming backmost from their ain seven-point deficit. But now, each the momentum they had successful Game 4 is gone.

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Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs reacts during the 2nd 4th against the New York Knicks successful Game Three of the 2026 NBA Finals astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City connected June 8, 2026. (Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)

Instead of being asked astir taking the pb successful the series, Victor Wembanyama was asked connected Friday if helium has "a consciousness of whether the radical really thinks" they could triumph 3 games successful a enactment to triumph the NBA title.

Well, it's rather the sense.

"Yeah, absolutely. Everybody thinks — everybody knows — we're going to bash it," Wembanyama answered.

Victor Wembanyama #1 of the San Antonio Spurs looks connected during the 4th fourth against the New York Knicks successful Game Three of the 2026 NBA Finals astatine Madison Square Garden connected June 08, 2026 successful New York City. (Al Bello/Getty Images)

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The 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers are the lone squad to implicit a comeback aft trailing 3 games to 1 successful the NBA Finals, doing truthful against the 73-9 Golden State Warriors and winning 2 of those games successful California.

Surely, the Spurs were successful disbelief astatine Madison Square Garden connected Wednesday, but Wembanyama says the clip for reflection is over, and they're implicit it.

"I wouldn't accidental it was truthful hard to, like, shingle off, right? Harder than immoderate different crippled before, by far, for sure. I mean, present we're implicit it. It's the playoffs. There's nary clip to regret things for excessively long," helium said.

Victor Wembanyama #1 of the San Antonio Spurs reacts aft shooting a 3 constituent basket. and being fouled during the 4th fourth against the New York Knicks successful Game Three of the 2026 NBA Finals astatine Madison Square Garden connected June 08, 2026 successful New York City. (Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images) (Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)

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Game 5 tips disconnected successful San Antonio connected Saturday astatine 8:30 p.m. ET. With a win, the Spurs would unit a Game 6 backmost successful New York connected Tuesday night, hours aft Wembanyama's location state of France volition look Senegal astatine adjacent MetLife Stadium successful the World Cup.

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