The NBA's Last Two Minute report said OG Anunoby legally blocked De'Aaron Fox's shot on the final possession of Spurs Game 5, resolving the central officiating dispute after New York beat San Antonio 107-106 on Wednesday. The league released the report on Thursday and quoted its finding in full: "Anunoby makes a legal attempt to block Fox's shot and dislodges the ball from his control before making incidental arm contact."
The play came with San Antonio holding a one-point lead and fewer than 15 seconds left, after Fox had broken free for a loose ball and secured a critical possession. Instead of dribbling out the clock and waiting to be fouled, Fox forced a contested shot against Anunoby; New York rebounded that miss and turned it into the go-ahead basket that completed a 29-point comeback, the largest in NBA Finals history.
The Last Two Minute report did more than clear the final block. It said officials missed a defensive three seconds on Victor Wembanyama earlier in the sequence and that a Josh Hart foul was overlooked on a play that resulted in Stephon Castle being ruled out of bounds for a turnover. Castle had stepped out of bounds on that possession with just more than a minute remaining.
Those missed calls join the decisive Fox-Anunoby contact as the central late-game controversies. The report leaves no question about the final touch: the league concluded that Anunoby dislodged the ball before any contact could be judged a foul. But the viral photograph of the play, which many pointed to as evidence of a potential foul, remains the image driving the debate among fans and commentators.
San Antonio entered the second half after scoring 76 points in the first and then went cold, a collapse that allowed New York to surge back. The Knicks' victory gave them a 3-1 lead in the 2026 NBA Finals and put the Western Conference champions in the position of needing to win three straight to extend the series.
The report performs two immediate chores: it answers the narrow technical question about whether the final Fox-Anunoby contact merited a call, and it documents other late-game officiating errors that could have altered possessions and momentum in a one-point game. The presence of both cleared and missed rulings is the report's central friction — a definitive ruling on the decisive play set against admissions of other mistakes.
The consequence is plain and present. New York left Game 5 with a 107-106 win and a 3-1 advantage. San Antonio must now attempt the historically difficult task the report itself cannot measure: winning three straight after squandering a large lead and a one-point advantage in the closing seconds.
The NBA settled the immediate officiating dispute about the final shot, but the larger question remains sharpened by the report: can the Spurs overcome the collapse and string together three consecutive wins to push the Finals past Game 6? The league answered the call question; the series answer is the one that will decide the championship.
