Knicks squander golden opportunity, miss chance to take commanding NBA Finals lead

NEW YORK — Mike Brown knows that the instant, immediate-aftermath story coming out of Game 3 of the 2026 NBA Finals will be the free-throw discrepancy between his New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs — a 24-8 chasm in the second half, with the Spurs outscoring their hosts by 14 points after intermission in a game they won 115-111 to get on the board in the best-of-seven series.He knows this because he spent the bulk of his 12-minute postgame press conference talking about the ga