Towns credits – Karl-Anthony Towns said a “right hand from God” helped spark the Knicks’ historic NBA Finals Game 4 victory over the Spurs, after OG Anunoby tipped in the winner with 1.2 seconds left and New York overcame deficits that have defined the series shift.
New York needed something impossible to happen in real time, and then it did—right down to the timing.
In Wednesday’s pivotal NBA Finals Game 4 against the San Antonio Spurs, OG Anunoby delivered a game-winning tip-in with 1.2 seconds to play. Karl-Anthony Towns, speaking during his postgame press availability, credited divine intervention for the moment, describing it as a “right hand from God.”
“Every time I talk to him, I say, ‘I already know what OG Anunoby’s gonna do in the fourth quarter,’” Towns said. “He did exactly what I thought he would do. Gave us a chance to win.”
The comeback was the kind of swing that turns a series on its edge—and the numbers behind it make it feel even harder to believe. The Knicks trailed by as many as 29 points. the largest deficit absorbed by any team on the way to an NBA Finals victory. At halftime. they were down 27 points. the biggest halftime deficit ever by a winning team in the history of the league’s championship round.
Anunoby didn’t just provide a highlight; he gave the Knicks the one play that changed the atmosphere of the building. He joined Jalen Brunson as the first Knicks duo to score 30 points each in the same NBA Finals game. Brunson finished with 36, while Anunoby scored 33 in New York’s Game 4 win.
The victory was also historic in its own right. It was the first time the Knicks had won an NBA Finals home game in 9,853 days.
Heading into Game 5, the swing had already moved the series into a commanding position for New York. Anunoby and Brunson helped the Knicks storm back from the brink of a series split to seize a 3-1 advantage.
The sequence of facts reads like a collision of rarity and momentum: a 29-point deficit erased. the largest championship-round comeback by halftime. a tip-in with 1.2 seconds left. and a series that flipped from doubt to control in the span of a single night. And in Towns’ telling. the most important force in that turnaround wasn’t just strategy—it was the belief that the decisive fourth-quarter play was already coming.
New York Knicks Karl-Anthony Towns OG Anunoby Jalen Brunson San Antonio Spurs NBA Finals Game 4 comeback divine intervention