inexcusable turnover and foul that set Jalen Brunson<\/a> up for the go-ahead free throw with 9.5 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n\u201cThat\u2019s the most frustrating thing, to throw it away after putting in all this work,\u201d said Wembanyama, who admitted to feeling \u201cblurry\u201d in the final minute. \u201cAm I going to regret it? Yes, of course. Am I going to use that to fuel me and to fuel us next game? Absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n
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New York Knicks guard Josh Hart knocks the ball away from San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama in the first half at Frost Bank Center during Game 2. Jason Szenes for The New York Post<\/p>\n
Wembanyama\u2019s chance for redemption comes Monday in the most anticipated game at Madison Square Garden this century.<\/p>\n
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He needs a win to avoid the death sentence of a 3-0 series deficit, which no team has recovered from in NBA history.<\/p>\n
The 1995 Magic were the last team to lose the first two games of the NBA Finals at home, led by a generational 23-year-old center who would eventually earn four rings and three Finals MVP awards.<\/p>\n
But before Shaquille O\u2019Neal claimed the crown, he would endure the embarrassment of a sweep against Hakeem Olajuwon and the Rockets on the sport\u2019s biggest stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, here we are,\u201d Wembanyama said. \u201cWe can\u2019t change the past now. We\u2019re already focused on Game 3.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Victor Wembanyama looked ready to take the crown. The first unanimous Defensive Player of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,7779,288,14219,327,563,6,1220,191,475,969,474,4075,4074,209,534,693],"class_list":["post-754664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio-spurs","tag-basketball","tag-frost-bank-center","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-jason-szenes","tag-josh-hart","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sanantonio","tag-sanantoniospurs","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-spurs","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116707504077532233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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