Brunson exits Game 1 of NBA Finals with right knee injury scare

In the opening moments of the NBA Finals, the fragility of championship dreams revealed itself when New York's Jalen Brunson — the steady heartbeat of a Knicks team that had climbed to basketball's highest stage — left Game 1 against San Antonio with a right knee injury after an accidental collision with Harrison Barnes. The arena fell quiet in that particular way crowds do when something important may have just broken. He returned to the bench, but not to the floor, and the question of what comes next now hangs over the entire series.