Largest comeback in the history of the entire NBA
This has been a season of breaking records and destroying what past statistics mean, that is for sure.
The Spurs were winning by so much that since I had other things that I needed to tend to and well, the stats were in my favor, I turned the game off and left the house. Remember, nobody has ever come back from 20 points, let alone 30 points down in a game and then won that game. But this is precisely what the Knew York Knicks did last night when the came back from 29 points down to win the game 105-104.
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check out this win probability chart and how it cruises about as "close to the sun" as you can while declaring San Antonio the victors. Even when the Knicks started chipping away at that lead it stayed very much in favor of the Spurs.
It wasn't until the very end of the game that the favor changed to be towards the Knicks and sadly, I wasn't watching any of that.
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There are some scenes that are going to go down in history from last night and some of these late shots will be part of it.
When the final buzzer rand and New York had won, you would have thought they had won the entire NBA Championship by the reaction of the fans and players.
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I'm not going to bother with game analysis about what went wrong etc because I don't know. Apparently the Knicks really just turned it on in a way that doesn't ever get done seeing as how they absolutely obliterated the largest comeback in the history of NBA Finals. The cool this is that the record was held by a team none other than the Knicks themselves, which was set in 1970.
Stats and records are apparently meaningless this season and almost every prediction I have attempted to make based on them has been wrong but I will present you with one other stat just for fun. There has only ever been 1 team that has ever come back from a 1-3 deficit and won the series 4-3. That was the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers. The other 37 times that teams have been in this position the team that had 3 games in hand went on to win. Can the Spurs pull off that which has never been done? Man, I'm not even going to guess because all of my bets have been wrong!
If you had bet $10 or so in the 3rd quarter for a Knicks win on one of those live-betting sites you likely would have made several thousand dollars on that bet.