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#97 Round Up 11 — Your Team Was 29 Points Up. Here's Why That's the Dangerous Part.
The San Antonio Spurs led Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals by 29 points and lost it on a tip-in with 1.2 seconds left — the biggest comeback in Finals history. Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids use it to argue momentum isn't a mindset problem but a stable attractor state (drawing on Gernigon, Briki & Eykens' dynamical systems model of psychological momentum) that has to be deliberately broken, not willed away. They trace the same idea through hydration-break goal-scoring stats, Shane Warne's between-ball theatre, the "plus" between cricket deliveries, and a community AFL warm-up that was quietly…
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