​Kevin Durant was on the fence about whether the San Antonio Spurs would win the NBA Finals. New York did not convince him until Game 5, Durant said in an episode of Boardroom Talks released Thursday.Durant sat with Speedy Morman at his home for the interview, which also covered the 2007 NBA Draft, Russell Westbrook’s retirement, and LeBron James signing with Philadelphia. Boardroom is the media company Durant co-founded with Rich Kleiman. Durant is entering his second season with the Houston Rockets, who went 52-30 and lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in six games in the first round.The New York Knicks won the series 4-1 and rallied from a double-digit deficit in each of the four wins. New York took the first two games at Frost Bank Center, 105-95 on June 3 and 105-104 on June 5. San Antonio’s only win came at Madison Square Garden, 115-111 in Game 3 on June 8.What San Antonio had just done to the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder, taking the Western Conference finals in seven games, is what left Durant unsure.”I remember the Knicks beating them in the end-season tournament pretty badly,” Durant said. “But San Antonio was hot at the time. They had just beat the champions, so I was just on the fence on if they would win. And then they got down every game. I’m just like, I don’t know. As they started coming back, I didn’t become a believer, to be honest, until the last game.”I was just like, the Spurs would be up 15 points every game, 29 points, and then they’ll just come back and steal a game,” Durant continued. “That’s probably why it’s the best championship as a viewer that I’ve probably ever seen. Not just because of the Knicks winning, but just the fashion that they won those games. It was insane.”In Game 4, San Antonio led 76-49 at halftime and by 29 points in the third quarter, then scored 30 points after the break. Nine of the Spurs’ turnovers came in the second half. OG Anunoby tipped in a Jalen Brunson miss with 1.2 seconds left for a 107-106 New York win, the largest comeback in Finals history.Three nights later at Frost Bank Center, the Spurs led by 16 and lost 94-90. Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 straight in the fourth quarter. Victor Wembanyama finished with 19 points, 14 rebounds, and 5 blocks.”We weren’t ready to win an NBA championship,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said afterward.Durant said he would not have left $113 million on the table the way Brunson did.”It really showed you the power dynamic in the NBA, a veteran team that was put together through trades, through signing $100 million deals,” Durant explained. “You had to overpay some guys to put the team together versus a team that drafted everybody. It was a young group that a lot of people would love to see them win. So for the Knicks to do it that way, I felt like they made a statement.”Wembanyama averaged 26.0 points, 11.2 rebounds, and 3.6 blocks in the five Finals games. Across 22 playoff games he averaged 23.8 points, 10.9 rebounds, and 3.5 blocks. He was