Four years ago, at the tender age of 21, Bukayo Saka scored three goals in four World Cup matches to help England reach the quarterfinals.

But when might Saka take the field for England in this World Cup cycle?

Manager Thomas Tuchel preached patience on Tuesday as Saka, 24, continues to deal with an Achilles injury diagnosed in March while playing for Arsenal in the Premier League.

Tuchel asserted that Saka could, if necessary, compete in England’s friendly against Costa Rica on Wednesday in Orlando, but he suggested it might not be ideal considering the goal is for the electric forward to be ready for England’s Group L opener against Croatia on June 17.

“We still have to take care a little bit with Bukayo, who had an injury in the March camp and carried it through to his club campaign,” Tuchel said in a news conference.

Similar to Arsenal, England has been managing Saka’s injury by limiting his training time. He participated in Tuesday’s practice, but not Monday’s.

“He is at the moment not able to do every training session through the week and then play,” Tuchel said. “He is available for tomorrow, but he needs management to be fully, fully 100 percent — which he is not. But he is on a high level.”

Saka played on a regular basis for Arsenal, the Premier League champion, despite his injury. His last match was on May 30 when Arsenal faced Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League final and lost on penalty kicks. Saka started and played through the 82nd minute.

He has not scored since May 5, when he produced the match’s lone goal when Arsenal defeated Atletico Madrid in the second leg of their semifinal.

–Field Level Media

The New York Knicks still hold a 2-1 lead and home-court advantage in the NBA Finals, but ticket prices for Game 4 on Wednesday night have plummeted 70% since they lost Game 3.

With the prospect the Knicks could close out their first championship in more than a half century, the get-in price for Game 4 had reached as high as around $13,500 and was still at $8,600 on Monday. However, the price fell to $4,025 by Tuesday afternoon — although that would still be more expensive than this year’s Super Bowl, according to ticket tracking service TicketData.com.

Following the Spurs’ win in Game 3, the soonest the Knicks can now clinch the series would be Game 5 back in San Antonio. However, the get-in price to even that potential closeout game has decreased by 40% over the past three days.

The only game to see an increase is a potential Game 7, which would also take place in San Antonio. The get-in price for a potentially decisive game either way has spiked 38%, in part due to the expectation that many New York fans would then seek to travel to San Antonio.

NBA FINALS GET-IN PRICES*

Game 4 — New York: $4,025 (Down 70% past three days)

Game 5 — San Antonio: $1,438 (Down 40%)

Game 6 — New York: $10,282 (Down 8%)

Game 7 — San Antonio: $5,181 (Up 38%)

*Source: TicketData

For comparison, the past two Super Bowls had day-of-game get-in prices of $2,002 in 2025 and $3,251 this year. The average Super Bowl get-in price since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic has been $3,914, according to TicketData.

Outside of the World Cup and the Stanley Cup Final, the next-most expensive sporting event through the end of the year currently is UFC 329. The card featuring the return of Conor McGregor against Max Holloway currently has a get-in price of $1,369 and is set for July 11 in Las Vegas.

The Knicks opened the series as significant underdogs, but flipped to -140 favorites at BetMGM following their Game 1 victory. Now ahead 2-1 with up to two more games at home, New York is still the -185 favorite compared to San Antonio at +155.

–Field Level Media

NEW YORK – Even as they authored the second-longest postseason winning streak in NBA history, the New York Knicks knew it wouldn’t be easy to win the franchise’s first championship since 1973.

Beginning Wednesday, they’ll find out just how arduous the rest of the path might become.

The Knicks will look to take a commanding 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals while the San Antonio Spurs will aim to knot the best-of-seven series when New York hosts San Antonio in Game 4 on Wednesday night.

The Spurs climbed back into the Finals Monday night, when Victor Wembanyama produced 32 points, eight rebounds, six assists and three blocks as San Antonio held off the Knicks for a 115-111 win.

The loss snapped a 13-game winning streak for the Knicks, who went 45 days without a defeat following a 109-108 setback against the Atlanta Hawks in Game 3 of an Eastern Conference first-round series on April 23.

New York fell two wins shy of matching the 2017 Golden State Warriors, who won their first 15 postseason games en route to the title.

“Every loss kind of hurts the same,” Knicks forward Josh Hart said Tuesday. “That’s a good team. We knew they weren’t just going to lay down and let us win four straight. We knew this was going to be a battle.”

The battle grew increasingly heated Monday.

Wembanyama was not charged with a foul after shoving Jalen Brunson to the floor with a little under five minutes left in the first quarter.

“He got away with one,” Knicks backup guard Jose Alvarado said Tuesday. “That’ll be the last one.”

Hart was whistled for a technical with 3:24 left in the first period when he shoved Luke Kornet after Kornet bumped into him following Hart’s coast-to-coast layup. In the third, Brunson’s foul of Julian Champagnie on a 3-point attempt was upgraded to a flagrant.

“The Knicks play super, super physical,” Champagnie said Tuesday. “That’s a part of their identity. We obviously have to do a good job of matching that and doing more of that. But I’m assuming it’s not going to get (any) easier.”

The Knicks also found it difficult Monday to overcome Brunson’s inefficiency and Karl-Anthony Towns’ fourth-quarter struggles.

Brunson scored a team-high 32 points Monday but on 11-of-25 shooting. He is shooting 37% from the field in the Finals after shooting 48.6% during the first three rounds.

Towns was scoreless in the final period for the third straight game. He has attempted just six field goals in the fourth quarter in the Finals.

“We have, what, 13 games in a row (and) 50 days of film to show what it looks like when we’re at our best?” Towns said. “We’ll get back to our fundamentals — what makes us great, what made us great — and get back to work tomorrow.”

The Spurs regained their winning formula Monday as Wembanyama produced his first 30-point effort since May 24, when he had 33 points in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The 7-foot-4 superstar scored the first four points of the game via dunks and was 9-of-14 from inside the arc after going 13-of-27 on traditional field goals in Games 1 and 2. Wembanyama was 2-of-4 from 3-point land Monday after going 4-of-15 from long distance during the first two tilts.

“The goal is always to go inside,” Wembanyama said. “The best shot in the game is an alley-oop — the most efficient shot.”

Wembanyama thriving inside opened up the most balanced offense of the series for the Spurs, who put five other players in double figures. That included Stephon Castle, who scored 18 of his 23 points in the first half before collecting five of San Antonio’s final seven points of the game.

The 115 points for the Spurs were their most since May 28, when San Antonio beat the Thunder 118-91 in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals

“What we’ve built with this team is we have an identity that makes everybody dangerous,” Wembanyama said. “Sometimes it will pay off over a season, over a playoff series.”

– Jerry Beach, Field Level Media