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The New York Knicks are champions of the world, and Jalen Brunson made sure nobody forgot his name. Brunson torched the opposition for forty-five points in Game five, claiming Finals MVP honors and delivering the Knicks their first NBA title in more than fifty years. Lower Manhattan is going to be loud for a long time.
And the story gets bigger when you zoom out, because this Knicks squad just made history on two fronts. New York captured the NBA Cup earlier this season and now the championship, completing the league's first-ever double. No team has done it before, and Mike Brown, just one year into his tenure as head coach, is standing at the top of the mountain. His message to the city? New York City is full of dogs. Hard to argue with that right now.
On the other side of this series, Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson rolled the dice with a defensive scheme designed to neutralize De'Aaron Fox in Game five, and it backfired in spectacular fashion. Whatever the plan was, it gave Brunson exactly the breathing room he needed, and Johnson is left answering uncomfortable questions about a gamble that cost San Antonio dearly at the worst possible moment.
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