We’re still reeling from that pivotal moment in the 2026 NBA Finals when the New York Knicks came back from a 29-point deficit to win the game en route to a championship. Here are some other extremely impressive records from the world of sports.

Super Bowl LI

The Super Bowl tends to go one of two ways: It’s a hard-fought game from the start with the winner decided in the final moments… or it’s a total blowout and a major bore. Super Bowl LI in 2017 looked to be the former, until the New England Patriots, led by quarterback Tom Brady, came back from a 21 to 3 score at halftime — and 28 to 9 score after three quarters — to win the whole thing. The Patriots kept nailing touchdown after touchdown until it was 28-all at the end of the game. The Super Bowl went into overtime for the first time ever, and the Patriots scored the crucial TD. Final score: 34 to 28. 

1973 Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is the second leg of the Triple Crowd of thoroughbred horse racing. In the 1973 running, it didn’t look like Kentucky Derby winner Secretariat would keep his streak alive. Out of the starting gate, the horse was in last place and stayed there for about 1/4 of a mile, out of a race that’s just 1 3/16 miles long. Then he took off and won the whole thing by a massive lead of 2.5 lengths. 

Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

At the highest levels of swimming, such as in the Summer Olympics, participants rarely win by any more than a few infinitesimal fractions of a second — it’s tough to move through water that swiftly as it is. In the last few strokes of the men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay medal round at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, France’s fourth and final swimmer, Alain Bernard, was ahead of USA’s Jason Lezak by about six feet, a seemingly insurmountable distance. But then Lezak swiftly and deftly swam, touching the wall just before Bernard. Team USA won the gold medal. 

2004 American League Championship Series

In Major League Baseball, postseason playoff series consist of best-of-seven matchups — the winner is the first to take four games. No team in more than 100 years of play had ever rallied back from a 3-0 deficit to clinch a 4-3 series win. That is, until the Boston Red Sox did it in the 2004 American League Championship Series. The New York Yankees led 4 to 3 going into the ninth inning of Game Four, but were prevented from sweeping by a tying run, sending the game into extra innings and a Red Sox victory. Then the Red Sox eked out 5 to 4 and 4 to 2 wins in Games Five and Six, and then blew away the Yankees in the decisive seventh game, 10 to 3. 

2016 NBA Finals

The 2016 NBA Finals were a rematch of the 2015 NBA Finals, but with a twist. The previous victors, the Golden State Warriors, were heavy favorites to repeat, on account of its record-setting regular season record of 73 and 9. After four games, the Warriors led three games to one, but began to falter at halftime in game five. The Cleveland Cavaliers, led by LeBron James, won the contest by 15 points. Then they kept winning, eventually securing the title in a seven game series.