Winners, losers from Game 5 of NBA Finals: Knicks win first NBA title since 1973

That is, quite simply, a championship play. 

It is a play a winner makes. 

The Knicks' playoff run. It was simply one of the most dominant championship runs of all time. 

The Knicks finished the playoffs with a 16-3 record and won 15 of 16 games to close it out. 

They may not have had all of the biggest star power, but they had no weakness. There was nothing to exploit. And nobody did. 

Game 5 losers

The Spurs blew another huge lead. It is almost impossible to comprehend. The Spurs had at least a 10-point lead in every game of this series. 

They seemed to be in control of just about every game for extended stretches, including late in games. 

And every single time, they just flat-out failed to finish the job.

Was it youth and inexperience?

Just flat-out sloppy play?

A team not ready for the brightest lights and the biggest stage?

It was probably a combination of all of the above. Whatever the case may be, this is going to be a long summer in San Antonio as they try to figure out where it all went wrong.

After blowing the largest lead in NBA Finals history in Game 4, they had a 10-point lead with 8:51 to play in regulation on Saturday. 

It was there for the taking. They just refused to take it. 

Mitch Johnson, San Antonio Spurs. When a team blows this many leads and this many big leads, that has to come back to the coach to at least some degree.

But the other thing that has to fall on Johnson is some of the player usage.

Continuing to lean on De'Aaron Fox when he just did not have it, and doing so at the expense of a rising superstar in Dylan Harper, is difficult to grasp. 

Fox was 3-for-15 from the floor on Saturday, made some awful decisions with the ball and without, and was more of a liability than a positive. Harper, meanwhile, was borderline unstoppable when the ball was in his hands.