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By Tyler Erzberger
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Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals will be remembered for many things.
The biggest comeback in Finals history. Victor Wembanyama, the future face of the league, shrinking in the fourth quarter and failing to live up to his expectations. Taylor Swift along with almost every celebrity that has ever stepped foot in New York City partying in the crowd like they just witnessed someone walk on water. De'Aaron Fox committing possibly the dumbest play in NBA history, when all he had to do was stand still to, for all intents and purposes, win the game for the San Antonio Spurs.
But the on-court highlight that will be played time and time again if the Knicks win the title in one of the next three games will be OG Anunoby, flying through the air, tipping in a missed go-ahead shot by Jalen Brunson in the dying seconds of the game.
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Brunson had done everything he could in the fourth quarter to get the Knicks over the line, including his own iconic 3-pointer over Wembanyama's fingertips, but it looked like they were going to come up just short in the end.
Then Anunoby was somehow there, splitting the San Antonio defense like the ball was destined to touch his hands, gently ricocheting from his touch into the rim and ultimately giving the Knicks the biggest comeback win in NBA Finals history.
Anunoby is the perfect personification of this Knicks team and their run: someone who was always talented but told that he had a ceiling to what type of player he could be. A "B+" level player that could defend well and make some key 3-points at times, but not someone who could be the engine or leading scorer on a true contending team.
That has all changed in the playoffs, where each round Anunoby is only getting better, ending Game 4 with 33 points on 10-for-15 shooting.
And more importantly, he has the biggest shot in the NBA since Kyrie Irving stuck a dagger in the Golden State Warriors a decade ago.
The Irving shot. The Derek Fisher miracle with 0.4 seconds left on the clock. Michael Jordan sending Utah into the abyss. Every generation has their iconic snapshot that lives forever in their head, and we might have just found ours with Anunoby's best impression of Superman.
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