2026 NBA Finals schedule, odds: Knicks await Thunder or Spurs after winning East
The New York Knicks are your 2026 Eastern Conference champions. For the first time since 1999, they will play in the NBA Finals, and if they win four more games, they will hoist their first championship trophy since 1973. The Knicks’ drought has never been more in danger than it is now. Of course, the hardest part remains to be done.
On the other side of the country, the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs are playing in a Western Conference Finals series that many believe will end up serving as the true finals. These are the two best teams of the regular season. They have two of the best players in the NBA, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Victor Wembanyama. Either will be favored in a matchup with the Knicks.
This series still has a way to go. Both teams are tied 2-2. The series returns to Oklahoma for Game 5 on Tuesday, so the defending champions have home-court advantage, but they are severely shorthanded at this point. Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell missed Game 4 due to injury. Without them, the Thunder really struggled to generate offense.
We don’t yet know who the Knicks will play in the finals. At least we know when the final will start. The Knicks, for the second straight round, will have a long gap between games as the Finals begin in more than a week. Fortunately for the exhausted Western Conference champions, they will have at least a few days to recover from this brutal series before hosting New York for Game 1. Here is the schedule for the 2026 NBA Finals.
2026 NBA Finals Schedule
Wednesday June 3
- Game 1: Thunder/Spurs vs. Knicks, 8:30 p.m. ET, ABC/fubo
Friday June 5
- Game 2: Thunder/Spurs vs. Knicks, 8:30 p.m. ET, ABC/fubo
Monday June 8
- Game 3: Knicks vs. Thunder/Spurs, 8:30 p.m. ET, ABC/fubo
Wednesday June 10
- Game 4: Knicks vs. Thunder/Spurs, 8:30 p.m. ET, ABC/fubo
Saturday June 13
- Game 5*: Thunder/Spurs vs. Knicks, 8:30 p.m. ET, ABC/fubo
Tuesday June 16
- Game 6*: Knicks vs. Thunder/Spurs, 8:30 p.m. ET, ABC/fubo
Friday June 19
- Game 7*: Thunder/Spurs vs. Knicks, 8:30 p.m. ET, ABC/fubo
2026 NBA Finals Odds
Odds as of May 25 via FanDuel
- Thunder: +100
- Knicks: +220
- Spurs: +270
The last NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden was Game 5 of 1999, which took place on June 25. When the Knicks host Game 3 in two weeks, it will be the first Finals game at MSG in 9,845 days. If the Spurs can win the West, they will stage a rematch of the 1999 Finals, which San Antonio won in five games.
The Knicks have won 11 straight playoff games in dominant fashion. They haven’t lost since Game 3 of their first-round series against the Hawks on April 23.
