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 on Friday night, 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

The New York Knicks held off a furious fourth-quarter comeback from the San Antonio Spurs, winning 105-104 in Game 2 of the NBA Finals after Victor Wembanyama missed a last-second shot.

If you were a member or lurker of basketball fan social media over the summer, there appeared to be one storyline that slowly took over the narrative as the months progressed: Victor Wembanyama ’s ani...