Spurs Guards Insist Jay-Z Cast Spell On The Team During NBA Finals Game 5

Jay-Z threw up the Roc diamond at Game 5, and the Spurs’ championship dreams collapsed right after that moment.

Jay-Z raised his hands to form the Roc-A-Fella diamond at Madison Square Garden during Game 5 of the NBA Finals, and the Spurs’ championship dreams collapsed right after that moment.

Dylan Harper watched it happen in real time, and he’s convinced the hex was real.

“Come on!” Hov yelled at the young guard, then threw up the diamond symbol like he was casting something dark over the visiting team, according to a new piece in GQ.

“We started losing,” Harper said. “Shit went downhill from there.”

The Knicks were already up 3-1 in the series when Jay-Z made his move, but that didn’t stop the moment from feeling like a turning point.

The Spurs had already survived the Thunder and made it further than anyone expected for a team with three players barely old enough to rent a car.

Victor Wembanyama was 22, Castle was 21, and Harper was just 20 years old, making them the second-youngest squad ever to reach the Finals.

They’d beaten the defending champs and the back-to-back MVP winner Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to get there, so nobody was counting them out completely.

But Game 5 at the Garden was different. The Knicks had just pulled off the largest comeback in Finals history in Game 4, erasing a 29-point deficit with OG Anunoby hitting the dagger tip-in.

The momentum had completely shifted, and when Jay-Z started heckling from his courtside seat, the Spurs’ time was up.

The Knicks won Game 5 by one point, 107-106, to claim their first championship since 1970. The Spurs’ magical run ended not with a bang but with a hex, or at least that’s how it felt to the young guards who’d carried San Antonio all the way to the Finals.

The young Spurs will be back, and they’ll probably get another shot at a title soon enough.

But they’ll never forget the night Jay-Z cast a spell on them at the Garden.

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