{"id":846316,"date":"2026-09-29T02:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/846316\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T02:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:36:22","slug":"stephon-castle-says-knicks-msg-crowd-was-underwhelming-during-nba-finals-okc-was-way-louder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/846316\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephon Castle says Knicks’ MSG crowd was ‘underwhelming’ during NBA Finals: ‘OKC was way louder’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spurs<\/a> are turning the page after their dream season came to an abrupt end in the NBA Finals, but comments by guard Stephon Castle ruffled a few feathers as training camp gets underway.<\/p>\n

In an interview with GQ<\/a>, Castle diminished the effectiveness of the Knicks<\/a>‘ crowd during the NBA Finals, when celebrities littered the sidelines in courtside seats.<\/p>\n

Castle and the Spurs split the two games in New York but lost all three in San Antonio, with blown double-digit leads in three of their four losses in the series.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at Castle’s comments about the Knicks’ crowd.<\/p>\n

MORE: LeBron James opens up about decision to join 76ers<\/a><\/p>\n

Stephon Castle says Knicks’ MSG crowd was ‘underwhelming’<\/p>\n

The Knicks’ first home NBA Finals game in 27 years, with a 2-0 series lead, was billed as the event of the summer in New York, but Castle told GQ he was surprised about the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

“It was underwhelming in that first game,” Castle said. “They made it seem like it was going to be way crazier in there.”<\/p>\n

The ovation the Knicks received when they came out onto the floor in Game 3 amazed the “Inside the NBA” crew, but with a laundry list of celebrities in the building, including U.S. president Donald Trump, the crowd seemed tense for much of the game. Game 3 would go down as New York’s only loss of the series.<\/p>\n

Come Game 4, however, the crowd seemed to play a role in rallying the Knicks back from a 29-point deficit<\/a> to stun the Spurs.<\/p>\n

“OKC was way louder than MSG,” Castle said, giving credit to the fans who cheered on the Thunder<\/a> during the Western Conference Finals.<\/p>\n

The Spurs went 3-3 on the road and 2-4 at home between the conference finals and NBA Finals, so San Antonio might be more comfortable as road warriors regardless of the crowd’s enthusiasm.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spurs are turning the page after their dream season came to an abrupt end in the NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,6,969,474,4075,4074,534],"class_list":["post-846316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio-spurs","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sanantonio","tag-sanantoniospurs","tag-spurs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117352004582419306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846316","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=846316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}