New York Knicks have won their first NBA championship in 53 years after defeating San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the Finals.Playing in San Antonio, the Knicks trailed at the start of the final quarter but overpowered the home side to claim the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy.The Knicks last ruled the NBA world in 1973 when they claimed their second championship.The Knicks won the Finals series against the Spurs 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits in all four of those victories.The largest deficit was 16 points on Sunday AEST, yet Jalen Brunson and the Knicks were never fazed.Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 straight for the Knicks in the fourth quarter, to be named NBA Finals MVP."I have no words," Brunson said during the on-court celebration."It's everything I ever dreamed of."Jalen Brunson was named NBA Finals MVP. (AP: Ross D Franklin)Brunson, fittingly, closed with a flourish. He set a Knicks record for points in a Finals game.The record had been 38 points by Willis Reed against the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 3 of the 1970 series. It now belongs to the left-handed point guard who changed the franchise's fortunes when he arrived four years ago.Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart combined to score 27 points."I don't know what I'm feeling," Brunson said."I'm in awe. Whenever someone counted us out, we found a way to come back and do something about it."Knicks guard Josh Hart celebrates a basket against the Spurs. (AP: Ross D Franklin)Dylan Harper scored 25 for the Spurs, which got 19 points, 14 rebounds and five blocked shots from Victor Wembanyama.The Knicks got to the brink of the title by rallying from 29 points down in Game 4 to win 107-106 on OG Anunoby's tip-in with 1.2 seconds left on Thursday AEST.It was the largest comeback in NBA Finals history.Game 5 followed the same script in the opening minutes as all the others in the series, with the Spurs taking a double-digit lead in the first quarter and then frittering most of it away in the second term.The Spurs became the first team in the play-by-play era, which started in the 1996/97 season, to lead five Finals games by 10 points or more in first quarters.The Knicks simply could not make a shot, missing on 16 of their first 18 tries and each of their first 11 two-point attempts.A 22-9 run in the second quarter got the Knicks within three points, before Devin Vassell scored just before the half-time buzzer to give the Spurs a 42-37 edge at the break.And that capped an opening 24 minutes of either offensive ineptitude or defensive prowess, depending on perspective.The 79 combined points in the first half were the lowest in a Finals game since Game 7 of Lakers-Celtics in 2010.AP