OG Anunoby relives his iconic NBA Finals moment with the help of fans in Times Square

This time, the scene unfolded 10 blocks north of the Garden, two months after OG Anunoby first took off from just inside the paint and tipped in a Jalen Brunson miss — with 1.2 seconds left in Game 4 of the NBA Finals — to form his forever Knicks moment.This time, Anunoby was at Times Square — inside the mesh surrounding an Essentia-created court as part of the water company’s “Change the Equation” platform — taking shots as Gersh Park Basketball players cycled through a line, trying to flip Anunoby’s misses in.A set of footprints on the court, with an “O” in one and “G” in the other, marked the approximate spot of Anunoby’s historic moment.
Fans along the outside tried to capture his presence with their phones.Less than three years ago, Anunoby was in Toronto, already with a championship ring but without much of a celebrity presence on the Raptors.But now, two months removed from that iconic tip-in, Anunoby has become just that for the Knicks — a defining presence in the NYC sports lexicon and the main attraction of the takeover event in the tourist hub of the world.“It’s been really fun,” Anunoby, near the end of his summer as a Knicks champion, told The Post.The scene Tuesday, remembering the tip, was “really cool,” Anunoby said.
He could “feel all the fans, all the excitement after the win, all together” on the Essentia court.Sign up for Inside the Knicks by Stefan Bondy, a weekly exclusive on Sports+.
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Enjoy this Post Sports+ exclusive newsletter! “OG, we’re going back-to-back,” one fan shouted as Anunoby posed for pictures.The most stoic Knicks player even cracked smiles as the Gersh Park Basketball players kept trying to recreate his shot.
Sometimes, they couldn’t tip it in.Other times, Anunoby made his attempts.But unlike some of his other public appeara...