Overview

• Lee told TNT analysts he would surrender one of his Academy Awards if the Knicks capture their first championship since 1973.
• New York’s 111-94 win in Game 5 on May 29 cut Indiana’s Eastern Conference finals lead to 3-2 and extended the series.
• The 68-year-old director has won two Oscars—a 2016 honorary award and a 2019 Best Adapted Screenplay prize—and has held Knicks tickets since 1985.
• Charles Barkley quipped during the postgame discussion that Lee would ‘‘keep ’em,’’ prompting laughs from the panel.
• The series moves to Indiana for Game 6, where the Knicks must win to force a decisive Game 7 at Madison Square Garden.