{"id":246839,"date":"2026-06-05T05:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/magic-johnson-had-a-telling-remark-on-why-the-spurs-lost-game-1\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:10:32","slug":"magic-johnson-had-a-telling-remark-on-why-the-spurs-lost-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/magic-johnson-had-a-telling-remark-on-why-the-spurs-lost-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Johnson had a telling remark on why the Spurs lost Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Magic Johnson knows a thing or two about sharing the ball, and it\u2019s something he didn\u2019t see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/san_antonio_spurs\/81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> do much in crunch time against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/new_york_knicks\/65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Knicks<\/a> in Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Spurs\u2019 105-95 loss to the Knicks at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas, the former Los Angeles Lakers superstar point guard shared his thoughts on the Knicks and the Spurs. He praised Jalen Brunson\u2019s performance, the coaching of Mike Brown and Josh Hart\u2019s gutsiness.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Johnson lamented an issue he believed caused San Antonio\u2019s downfall in the series opener.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Spurs just played too much isolation basketball in the 4th quarter, and it was a key reason they lost,\u201d the three-time NBA Finals Most Valuable Player p<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MagicJohnson\/status\/2062380468109238298\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">o<\/a>sted on X.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/magic_johnson_had_a_telling_remark_on_why_the_spurs_lost_game_1\/s1_127_43918493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magic Johnson knows a thing or two about sharing the ball, and it\u2019s something he didn\u2019t see the San Antonio Spurs do much in crunch time against the New York Knicks in Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals. Following the Spurs\u2019 105-95 loss to the Knicks at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}