{"id":507043,"date":"2025-12-31T06:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/507043\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T06:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:28:23","slug":"knicks-have-already-developed-impressive-habit-of-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/507043\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks have already developed impressive habit of winning"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all know the danger of looking too far ahead. The reminders are scattered across the NBA. Just the other day, Nikola Jokic banged up his knee<\/a>, and for a dozen or so long hours the Nuggets could see the entire season flash before their eyes. Turns out it was just a hyperextension, not a tear. Denver will survive. But they\u2019re going to lose some games while he\u2019s out.<\/p>\n

Injury luck is the only luck that matters in the NBA. The Knicks, thus far, have been pretty lucky with injuries. Only Landry Shamet\u2019s shoulder<\/a> has meant an extended stay in civvies, so far. There\u2019s been a sprain here, a strain there, a flu bug over yonder, that kind of stuff. It\u2019s the gamble of every NBA game. You play hard every night, sometimes you\u2019ll pay for the effort.<\/p>\n

The Knicks play hard every night anyway. Better, they have developed two additional superpowers a third of the way into the season that augment that fundamental asset.<\/p>\n

They are excellent closers. So far this season the Knicks have led 19 times after three quarters. They are 19-0 in those games. That\u2019s not an especially small sample size, either. So far in 2025, when they have you after three, they have you for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We all know the danger of looking too far ahead. The reminders are scattered across the NBA. Just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,288,304,3357,6,1136,191,3810,3806,3027,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-507043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jalen-brunson","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-mike-brown","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkknicks","17":"tag-ny-sports-minute","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115812768602775851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}