Spurs star Victor Wembanyama reacts to egg-throwing incident after Knicks' NBA Finals Game 4 win

Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News on Jun 13, 2026

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Victor Wembanyama took the high road after someone appeared to throw an egg at him as he returned to a New York City hotel after Game 4 of the NBA Finals.

Videos circulating social media showed objects being hurled from a rowdy crowd in the direction of the San Antonio Spurs’ 7-4 superstar after the Knicks’ historic come-from-behind win on Wednesday night.

One video seemed to show an egg exploding on a pole near Wembanyama outside of the entrance to the team hotel.

As of Saturday morning, there was no complaint on file, an NYPD spokesperson said.

“I didn’t really think much of it,” Wembanyama said Friday, addressing the incident for the first time. “I just saw that one video of the eggs. I didn’t see any other one. It’s OK. I don’t dislike it. Obviously, it’s not good at all. But it doesn’t bother me.”

Other footage appeared to show fans surrounding and banging on the Spurs’ bus outside of Madison Square Garden that night.

“We did hear some things, yeah,” Wembanyama, 22, said. “I have no idea. I think it was a bottle because it was, like, water on the bus. I didn’t see anything.”

The incidents occurred on a night the Knicks furiously erased a 29-point deficit and won, 107-106, behind OG Anunoby’s instant-classic go-ahead put-back with 1.2 seconds remaining.

On Thursday, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said he wished “more effort had been put out in New York” to protect the Spurs after the Knicks received police escorts in San Antonio.

“It was very well received by the Knicks and their families last week [for Games 1 and 2]. They were very appreciative of the effort that we put forth, providing an escort from their hotel to the game, and then back to the hotel after the game. It’s a little extra effort on our part — a lot of extra effort on our part — but I think it’s worth it,” Salazar said.

“What we saw with our Spurs, the bus getting surrounded and rocked, that’s a bad situation just waiting to happen, not just for the players themselves but also for the people on the ground, doing this sort of thing.”

Wednesday night was an all-around rough one for Wembanyama, who finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds in Game 4 but missed 10 of his final 12 shot attempts, as well as a pair of free throws with 1:47 to go while his Spurs clung to a one-point lead.

Wembanyama — the NBA’s unanimous Defensive Player of the Year and the third-place finisher in MVP voting — heard boos throughout Games 3 and 4 at the Garden, with his Game 3 shove of Jalen Brunson being a particular point of contention.

The NBA said it missed a foul call on that shove, but Wembanyama did pick up a flagrant 1 foul in Game 4 when his elbow caught the chin of Karl-Anthony Towns with 9:27 left in the third quarter. The Spurs led, 81-52, at that point, but the Knicks outscored San Antonio 55-25 from there, including a 13-0 run that immediately followed the foul.

The 29-point comeback victory was the largest in NBA Finals history and gave the Knicks a 3-1 series lead.