Game 4 of this year’s NBA Finals will go down as one of the most memorable games in the league’s history. The New York Knicks producing the biggest comeback in finals history in Madison Square Garden, putting them on the brink of snapping a 53-year title drought? It will be tough to top that. Thank goodness we got two days off before Saturday’s Game 5.Now the Spurs will attempt their own comeback. Only one team has ever won the title after going down 3-1 in the finals: LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers, a decade ago. The gut punch from Game 4 has to be staggering, but the Spurs have been close enough in this series that they should be able to find some hope.The Athletic’s Nick Friedell, Tony Jones, Jay King, Eric Koreen and Dan Woike got together to talk about the Spurs’ chances, the Finals MVP race and more.Before Game 3, five of our writers agreed that Karl-Anthony Towns was the MVP of the series. If you had to give out Finals MVP heading into Game 5, who would you choose? And how clear do you think the choice is?Friedell: I would go with OG Anunoby. His plays down the stretch in Game 4 will be remembered forever if the Knicks win, and he has been the most solid two-way performer for the group throughout this series. If he has another big game in Game 5, I think the award is his.But I don’t think the gap is very wide. If Jalen Brunson has a big night, he will be the MVP. He is the engine of the entire group and will have the narrative push behind him if the Knicks pull this off.Jones: I think it should be Anunoby, with Brunson heavily in the conversation. Towns disappeared in Game 3 and got into foul trouble in the first half of Game 4. That derailed his candidacy a bit. If anything, it speaks to how long a series is. Towns was great early. Brunson was good in Game 3 and great in Game 4. But Anunoby has been consistent through four games, was great in two of them and has the defining moment of the series.King: It’s up in the air right now, but I would choose Anunoby. Has he missed yet in the series? It doesn’t seem like it. He’s also the only Knick who seems comfortable finishing near Victor Wembanyama. It doesn’t hurt that Anunoby’s final-second sequence in Game 4 will be remembered forever. On top of the heroics, Anunoby has defended at his usual elite level. His game-saving block against De’Aaron Fox was one of several swats Anunoby has racked up in transition. The Spurs’ ball handlers are impossibly athletic, but Anunoby can handle them.Towns would rank second for me at this point. His impact against Wembanyama is unmatched. The Knicks can space out the unique big man because Towns has the skill to do it. Brunson’s job is the hardest because the Spurs have sold out to stop him, but he’ll need to be a little bit more effective, as he was in Game 4, to catch up to the others.Koreen: At the risk of relitigating the Steph Curry-Andre Iguodala debate of 2015, I think it’s Anunoby by a hair over Brunson. In the macro, the Knicks offense crumbles without Brunson; he stirs the drink. What he has done at the end of several games has been huge. However, within the context of this series, what Anunoby has done in the biggest moments on both ends, plus his overall numbers — the best true-shooting percentage in an extended playoff run ever — put him just ahead for me. His consistency and efficiency are unmatched.However, Brunson could easily close the gap with a strong game. So could Towns. The Knicks are plus-40 with Towns on the floor. No regular is close to that. It’s really tight.Woike: He hasn’t been efficient. He hasn’t looked comfortable. But Brunson’s relentlessness and his willingness to take and take and take big shots in the biggest moments are huge. The case for Anunoby is simple — no one has been better in their role than him, and he hit the biggest shot (and got the biggest stop) in this series. But it’s Brunson’s team. He’s done enough, in my mind, to have the edge heading into Game 5.Through four games, only eight points separate the Knicks and the Spurs. On a scale of one (not at all) and 10 (extremely), how confident does that make you that the Spurs can come back in this series?Friedell: Five. The Spurs had the chance to win every single game so far in this series. They have the talent and they have the depth. They just don’t have the experience. If they can win Game 5 at home, I think all the pressure goes back to the Knicks at MSG to close this thing out. The whole world will be expecting a party in New York City and that building will get tense if the Spurs get out to another lead.How do the Spurs respond early in Game 5? There has to be an emotional hangover from the meltdown in Game 4. If the Spurs can weather that storm and win Game 5, they will get some of their confidence back and remember how close they have been throughout this series.