The New York Knicks are NBA champions.

With a 94–90 win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 on Saturday night, New York ended a 53-year championship drought — and OG Anunoby officially joined one of the most exclusive clubs in basketball history: players who have won an NBA title in two different countries.

From Toronto to New York

Anunoby won his first ring with the Toronto Raptors in 2019 — Canada’s only NBA franchise and the only team in the league that plays outside the United States. That alone made him historic. He became the first British-born player ever to win an NBA championship. There was a painful asterisk, though: an emergency appendectomy forced him to miss the entire playoff run. He dressed for the Finals but did not play a single minute.

Seven years later, there is no asterisk.

Anunoby’s game-winning tip-in in Game 4 completed the largest comeback in NBA Finals history. (Photo: Getty Images)

OG carried this Knicks team when the moment was biggest. In Game 4, he finished with a playoff-career-high 33 points on 10-for-15 shooting — including 7-for-9 from three — then delivered the two most crucial plays of New York’s historic comeback: a chase-down block on De’Aaron Fox with 12 seconds left, followed by a game-winning tip-in with 1.2 seconds on the clock to complete the largest comeback in NBA Finals history, from 29 points down.

Karl-Anthony Towns called it the “right hand from God.” Through the entire Finals, Anunoby averaged 23.8 points while shooting 58% from the field and 55.6% from three, with the kind of elite two-way dominance that had him firmly in Finals MVP conversation all series long.

The Two-Country Club

Because the Toronto Raptors are the only NBA franchise based outside the United States, the only path to winning a championship in two countries runs through them. That makes this distinction genuinely rare. Here’s the full list of confirmed members:

• Kawhi Leonard
  The clearest blueprint. Leonard won with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014 and with the Toronto Raptors in 2019, earning Finals MVP both times — making him the only player ever to win Finals MVP in both conferences. He remains the gold standard of the two-country club.
• Danny Green
  Came to Toronto in the same trade as Kawhi and won his second ring there after winning with San Antonio in 2014. He later added a third with the Lakers in 2020, giving him three rings across three franchises.
• Patrick McCaw
  Won back-to-back titles with Golden State before joining the Raptors in January 2019 and becoming part of Toronto’s championship roster — giving him three rings in his first three seasons in the league.
• Chris Boucher
  A Montreal native, Boucher was part of the Warriors’ 2018 championship team on a two-way contract before signing with the Raptors and winning again in 2019. Born in Canada, he won for Canada.
• OG Anunoby
  The newest — and most compelling — member of the group. Unlike most of the names above, OG didn’t collect a ring as a reserve piece. He won the first one while sidelined by emergency surgery. He won the second one as arguably the best two-way player on the floor in the NBA Finals.

The Full Picture

Born in London to Nigerian parents, Anunoby moved to the United States at age four and built himself into one of the most feared defenders in the league. He was a Raptor. Then a Knick. And now, twice a champion — once in Canada, once in the U.S. — with a legacy that no injury or asterisk can touch this time.

The two-country club is small. OG Anunoby just became its most compelling member.