In the long arc of basketball history, certain rivalries carry the weight of decades — and now, the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks are set to meet again in the NBA Finals, nearly thirty years after their first championship encounter. San Antonio outlasted the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder in a decisive Game 7 on Saturday night, 111-103, with young star Victor Wembanyama providing the steady hand the moment required. The Knicks, meanwhile, swept Cleveland to return to the Finals for the first time in 27 years, completing a journey that an entire generation of New York fans had
Wembanyama leads Spurs past Thunder into Finals rematch with Knicks
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