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10 Jun 2026 - Le Figaro Sport Par Christophe Remise DÉ­CRYP­TAGE - Les bons et les mauvais points après le match 3 des Finales NBA, remporté la nuit dernière par San Antonio à New York (111-115).Wendell Cruz / REUTERSVictor Wembanyama prend le meilleur sur le pivot des New York Knicks, Karl-Anthony Towns. TOPS Wembanyama répond présent Il était attendu au tournant, il a répondu présent. Sur le banc des accusés après le match 2 et sa perte de balle dans la dernière minute, Victor Wembanyama a livré un match de patron la nuit dernière, au Madison Square Garden (victoire 115- 111), afin de maintenir les Spurs en vie. 32 points, 8 rebonds, 6 passes décisives, 3 contres et 2 interceptions pour l’Alien de 22 ans, deuxième plus jeune joueur de l’histoire des Finales à plus de 30 points, 5 rebonds et 5 passes après Magic Johnson. Contrairement aux deux premiers matchs de la série, il a remporté son duel face à Karl-Anthony Towns (11 pts, 4/10), et a su imposer sa volonté à l’intérieur. « C’est...

10 Jun 2026 - Le Figaro Sport Par Christophe Remise Dos au mur, les Spurs ont enlevé le match 3 des NBA Finals la nuit dernière, au Madison Square Garden, sous les yeux de Donald Trump. Les Knicks mènent 2-1 dans la série.DUSTIN SATLOFF / Getty Images via AFPVictor Wembanyama a sorti son meilleur match depuis le début des Finales. San Antonio reste en vie. Après deux défaites au Texas, et en sachant qu’être mené 0-3 est synonyme de défaite dans 100% des cas à ce stade de la compétition, Victor Wembanyama et les Spurs n’avaient pas d’autre choix que de l’emporter à New York la nuit dernière, lors du troisième match des Finales NBA. Et c’est ce qu’ils ont fait (victoire 115-111, les stats ici ). En quête d’un premier sacre depuis 1973, les Knicks mènent 2-1 dans la série avant le Game 4, dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi (2h30), toujours au Madison Square Garden. Ils voient néanmoins s’achever leur série de 13 succès, la deuxième plus longue de l’histoire des play-offs après celle des War...

Photo: Cycling Legends Collection https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1598663752263547&set=a.417935973669670 The new wave of English-speaking pros entering the European peloton in the early 1980s caused ripples. They were winning, but they were different. To the eyes of the Peugeot team manager, Maurice De Muer , the young Stephen Roche didn’t even look like a pro bike racer. They met at the 1981 Peugeot training camp in the South of France. Roche travelled with Robert Millar , who’d been with Peugeot the previous year . When they arrived D e Muer asked Millar if his driver was staying for dinner. The ‘driver’ was Stephen Roche. Millar explained the mix-up and De Muer looked Roche up and down, and told him; “You might have been able to win amateur races carrying that much weight, but you won’t as a pro.” Roche’s baby face had misled De Muer, which he quickly proved by winning the Tour of Corsica and Paris-Nice . That was incredible. Peugeot was stuffed with established talent, b...

A Generation Joins the Party  And Shakes The Suffering By ELLEN YAN and JONAH E. BROMWICH The New York Times - Mercoledì 10 giugno 2026 Pagina B11 New Yorkers under 30 have a notion of the suffering that older fans had endured, but are much more focused on celebrating a charge toward an N.B.A. championship. The line outside Pig Beach, a sprawling barbecue joint in Queens, is full of young people dressed in blue and orange and white. The oldest of the young are 30. They were toddlers during the last Knicks ascension. They flow into the bar toward a large screen in the backyard where Game 1 of the N.B.A. finals is showing. Unlike their elders, they are confident that the Knicks are going to win. Older generations have spent the last few weeks recalling past Knicks glory and the more recent pileup of failures. The 30-and-unders know that song. “It’s 30 years of suffering,” Mark Santiago, 29, from the Bronx, said. “All we know is pain.” But that is not entirely true. It has not been t...

‘It’s the Knicks versus the refs.  It’s not even the Knicks versus the Spurs.’     - JUAN HERRERA, 20, who watched       at a bar in Pennsylvania Station. The New York Times Mercoledì 10 Giugno 2026 Pagina 30 As the Knicks have romped through the N.B.A. playoffs this spring, their embattled fans, desperate for their beloved team’s first title in more than 50 years, wondered what — if anything — could spoil the good vibes. For many New Yorkers, the arrival of President Trump, who attended Game 3 of the finals against the San Antonio Spurs, seemed like an answer. Heightened security at the arena meant that some fans waited more than an hour to enter. Entire blocks nearby were closed to pedestrians. The popular watch party outside the Garden was canceled because of safety concerns. The fans in deep-blue New York City responded with rancor. Trump smiled and saluted in the face of deafening boos when he briefly appeared on the arena’s video board durin...

Wembanyama now provides purpose: Galvanizing Knicks fans and summoning heroes. Victor Wembanyama of the Spurs has become the new figure for New York fans to take out frustrations on. ‘I’m nowhere near Trae Young level, though.’    - VICTOR WEMBANYAMA,  the latest villain in Knicks lore. MARCUS THOMPSON II - The Athletic The New York Times - Mercoledì 10 giugno 2026 Pagina 28 Gotham always needs a villain. New York prefers someone to revile, someone to rally against. This city is girded with grievances: the abysmal traffic, the absurd rent, the oppressive weather, the idiot tourist in the way on a busy sidewalk, the taxi darting across three lanes with no blinker, the neighbor who somehow got a better deal. This city wakes up looking for a place to put its fury. And because of New York’s significance as a city at the center of so much American excellence, it attracts as much resentment as it does admiration. It makes New Yorkers a proud and protective people. That tension ...

GEOFF  BURKE/IMAGN IMAGES “I like lively crowds, active crowds,”  said Victor Wembanyama ,  whose 32-point effort helped San Antonio cut its NBA Finals deficit to 2-1. San Antonio thrived amid hostile atmosphere in Game 3 of NBA Finals 10 Jun 2026 - The Washington Post BY STEPHEN WHYNO Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama likens home-court advantage to having six players on the court against five . On the road, it’s like five on six. Wemby likes it like that. Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs thrived in Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden and are undaunted by the hostile environment and the series deficit they face against the New York Knicks. “I like lively crowds, active crowds,” Wembanyama said Tuesday, roughly 13 hours after his dominant 32-point, eight-rebound, six-assist effort to pick up his first career win in the finals . “At home, it’s an extra motivation because you want to give the people who support you a good show. On the road...

San Antonio tries to even NBA Finals 10 Jun 2026 - Texarkana Gazette BRIAN MAHONEY  AP BASKETBALL WRITER NEW YORK — The last time the New York Knicks lost a game, they didn’t do it again for another month and a half. When they fell behind against Atlanta in the first round of the NBA playoffs, desperation turned into domination. The Knicks won 13 straight games, many of them blowouts, in one of the most impressive postseason stretches in NBA history. They don’t need to do anything so dramatic now. With a 2-1 lead over the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals, a simple 2-2 record the rest of the season would give New York its first championship since 1973. So after dropping Game 3, the Knicks don’t need an overhaul. But they do need to be better. “We have a veteran group. Nobody is quote-unquote panicking or anything like that,” Knicks coach Mike Brown said Tuesday. “Everybody is disappointed that we didn’t go out and execute and play to what we feel our standard is. That’s not taki...

LUCA PISAPIA Il Manifesto - Mercoledì 10 giugno 2026 Pagina 16 I campionati mondiali di calcio maschile che cominciano domani allo stadio Azteca di Città del Messico con la sfida tra Messico e Sudafrica sono il culmine di un lungo processo attraverso cui la FIFA certifica la sua trasformazione da apparato burocratico incaricato di organizzare le competizioni calcistiche internazionali a multinazionale protagonista del ciclo reazionario del tardo capitalismo. LA COPPA DEL MONDO 2026 sarà infatti la più estesa, la più redditizia, la più inquinante e soprattutto la più escludente di sempre. Un festival del suprematismo trumpiano. Per la prima volta il torneo mondiale si giocherà infatti in tre diversi paesi (Canada, Messico e Stati Uniti); e per la prima volta con 48 squadre, 12 giorni e ben 104 partite (la maggior parte delle quali, 78, negli Stati Uniti). Per i continui spostamenti aerei necessari sono state stimate emissioni per oltre 9 milioni di tonnellate di anidride carbonica equiv...

La squadra di basket cittadina arriva alle finali, ma la grande mela viene militarizzata per l’arrivo di Donald Trump MARINA CATUCCI Il Manifesto - Mercoledì 10 Giugno 2026 Pagina 10 È dal 1973 che i Knicks non vincono un campionato NBA, e dal 1999 che non arrivavano in finale. Ventisette anni di attesa, e non è di certo una quisquilia come l’aver perso la partita al Madison Square Garden per 115 a 111, lunedì notte, contro gli Spurs di San Antonio, gli stessi che gli avevano soffiato la vittoria nel ’99, ad abbassare il volume dell'entusiasmo newyorchese. Stasera si gioca «Game 4» - la quarta partita -, sempre al Madison Square Garden, e l’aria resta elettrica. È da qui che arriva lo slogan della stagione, « Knicks in four », i Knicks vincono in quattro partite, che ha invaso magliette, marciapiedi e i profili social, specialmente dopo che un tifoso ha lanciato la variante che ha fatto più presa su tutti: «My mayor muslim (il mio sindaco è musulmano), my bagel jewish (il mio bagel...