Jalen Brunson got the MVP chants. Karl-Anthony Towns got the ticker-tape parade headlines. But quietly — almost absurdly — OG Anunoby walked away from the 2026 NBA Finals with a statistical feat that no one in league history had ever touched.
Anunoby posted a True Shooting percentage of 72.1% across the entire playoffs, the highest mark ever recorded for any player with at least 150 field-goal attempts. The previous record? Donovan Mitchell’s 69.6% during the 2020 Bubble. This isn’t just incremental improvement — it’s a full leap past one of the most efficient scoring runs the league had ever seen.
The numbers behind the leap
True Shooting percentage factors in twos, threes, and free throws to create one catch-all efficiency number. Anunoby’s 72.1% is absurd on its face — 2.5 percentage points clear of Mitchell’s record. During the Knicks’ title run, the wing averaged 20.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. But the box score doesn’t tell the full story.
When New York’s offense stalled — and it did, multiple times against San Antonio — Anunoby was the release valve. He hit contested threes late in the shot clock. He created his own looks against Wembanyama’s freakish length. He did the dirty work that doesn’t make highlight reels but wins championships.
Finals performance that rewrites the script
In the Finals themselves, Anunoby averaged 21.2 points on a TS% of 71.4%. His signature moment came in Game 4, when the Knicks erased a 29-point deficit — the largest comeback in NBA Finals history. Anunoby scored 33 points in that game, swatted a potential game-tying shot, and tipped in the eventual winner. It was the kind of performance that turns a good two-way player into a folk hero.
Fans online noted that Anunoby’s efficiency never dipped, even when the Knicks’ stars struggled. One tweet from The Lead went viral after the series ended: a graphic showing his historic TS% with the simple caption, “It’s official.”
Anunoby has always carried the reputation of a lockdown defender with offensive upside. But this postseason proved the upside is real — and historically efficient. For a Knicks team that leaned heavily on Brunson’s shot creation and Towns’ interior scoring, Anunoby became the silent engine that kept everything humming. Sometimes the loudest statement is made without a word.
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