New York Knicks expect a reaction from San Antonio Spurs despite going up 2-0 in series

[p]"[b]Every single day we chip away and try to be the best that we can be,[/b]" [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/new-york-knicks/WCNO4nbt/"]Knicks[/a] star [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/brunson-jalen/YLRvL3v7/"]Jalen Brunson[/a] said after New York held off the Spurs [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/basketball/new-york-knicks-WCNO4nbt/san-antonio-spurs-IwmkErSH/?mid=C0SkW6TO"]105-104 on Friday[/a] to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Finals.[/p][p]The Knicks are just the third team -- after [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/davis-jordan/fgGG1NHc/"]Michael Jordan[/a]'s 1993 [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/chicago-bulls/bPjc49q0/"]Chicago Bulls[/a] and the 1995 [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/houston-rockets/Sr9PQALP/"]Houston Rockets[/a] - to win the first two games of the Finals on the road, and both those teams went on to lift the trophy.[/p][p]But Brunson and the Knicks won't allow themselves to celebrate too soon despite the frenzy their success has sparked in New York City.[/p][p]"[b]Even with the series (the way) it is now, next game, mindset has to be 0-0 again,[/b]" Brunson said. "[b]It's just how it has to be. You can't be comfortable. You can't be satisfied with anything.[/b][/p][p]"[b]Just got to continue to push forward.[/b]"[/p][p]The Knicks have won 13 straight playoff games - the second-longest post-season streak ever - to close in on their first championship since 1973.[/p][embed guid="ce5953ba-aa23-4b52-8e2c-72ed379d8410" url="https://x.com/ESPNNewYork/status/2063104142747287592?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]Plenty of vocal Knicks fans packed [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/san-antonio-spurs/IwmkErSH/"]San Antonio[/a]'s Frost Bank Center for games one and two and ticket prices for games three and four at Madison Square Garden have soared.[/p][p]Some 6,000 people showed up for a game two watch party outside Madison Square Garden, with New York authorities reporting that a police officer was assaulted and 26 people arrested outside the fabled arena as raucous celebrations got out of hand.[/p][p]But if New Yorkers are already envisioning a title, the Knicks are keeping a laser focus on the upstart Spurs, led by 22-year-old French star [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/wembanyama-victor/jFmM1MFl/"]Victor Wembanyama[/a].[/p][p]The young Spurs' inexperience has showed in games one and two, but with Wembanyama leading them they amassed the second-best regular-season record in the league and eventually dispatched the defending champion [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/oklahoma-city-thunder/0fHFHEWD/"]Oklahoma City Thunder[/a] in seven games in the Western Conference finals.[/p][p]"[b]Knowing them, there's going to be another level,[/b]" Brunson said. "[b]We have to be prepared and be ready to match it and play for 48 minutes[/b]."[/p][p]The Spurs, for their part, are conceding nothing.[/p][p]"[b]It was going to take everything to win the series anyway,[/b]" San Antonio guard [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/castle-stephon/Kzd3IGeT/"]Stephon Castle[/a] said. "[b]Putting ourselves in this type of predicament is going to be tough, but I don't think it's anything we can't handle.[/b]"[/p]