NBA Finals 2026: How the Spurs' dynamic duo cost them Game 2 ... and likely the series

SAN ANTONIO —For all the communication that had transpired over the final 12 minutes of the Spurs’ 105-104 loss to the New York Knicks in Game 2, it was perhaps a fitting inflection point of their first Finals — and a cruel punishment from the basketball gods — that the lack of understanding between Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle, one of basketball’s most exceptional pairings, ultimately became their undoing. As the game progressed in the fourth quarter,