SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama’s first chance for true NBA Finals glory clanged off the back of the rim, and the New York Knicks are just two wins away from their first championship since 1973.Wembanyama, who scored 29 points for the Spurs, missed a jumper before time expired and San Antonio lost Game 2 to the Knicks, 105-104. Karl-Anthony Towns led New York with 21 points and 13 rebounds.The Knicks, who lead the finals, 2-0, have now won 13 consecutive playoff games — the second-longest winning streak in NBA playoff history. Would you believe the two teams with the longest playoff winning streaks were both coached by Mike Brown?The only team to win more — the 2017 Golden State Warriors, who won 15 straight — took the title that year. Brown was an assistant coach, but had to step in for Steve Kerr for a few games.If Brown’s Knicks keep the streak going, they would, of course, tie that Warriors team, and, more importantly, snap the franchise’s lengthy championship drought.“’I’m not that smart. You got to have good players that carry you,” Brown said.Teams that go up 2-0 in the finals are 32-5 all-time in those series. Brown is looking smarter by the day.New York led by 14 with six minutes left and nearly blew it (had Wembanyama’s shot fallen, we’d be talking differently about coach Brown today). The Knicks’ OG Anunoby dunked on Wembanyama with about six minutes left for a 97-83 lead. Rather than sink the Spurs, the dunk served as a wake-up call. San Antonio scored the next 14 points to tie the game.Wembanyama, who struggled mightily in the first half but recovered for a much better final two quarters, will want the last 10 seconds back. He turned it over with 9.5 seconds left, and then of course missed a 20-footer that would’ve won it.Wembanyama’s last shot attempt was set up by Jalen Brunson (20 points), making the first of two free throws, but missing the second. Brunson 7-of-25, and the Knicks won anyway. Towns was more dominant in the first half and was hampered by foul trouble in the second, but Mikal Bridges was solid after halftime and finished with 20 points. Anunoby added 17 points for the Knicks.Game 3 is at 8:30 p.m. Monday at Madison Square Garden. It will be the first finals game there since 1999 and, as long as President Donald J. Trump’s schedule holds, the first finals game with a sitting U.S. president in attendance.The Spurs were 5-1 after a loss heading into Friday’s affair, and this one stung. They were up by as many as 12 in the second quarter, but went to the locker room trailing New York, 56-52. Wembanyama took just four shots for seven points (with three made free throws) in the first half, while Towns (17 points, seven boards) had nearly posted a double-double by halftime.