{"id":541826,"date":"2026-01-17T01:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/541826\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T01:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:57:14","slug":"one-critical-question-looms-for-knicks-as-things-start-to-look-the-same-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/541826\/","title":{"rendered":"One critical question looms for Knicks as things start to look the same again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 James Dolan reminded us there wasn\u2019t much wriggle room with his team.<\/p>\n<p>Finals or Failure.<\/p>\n<p>Within 10 days later, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/16\/sports\/reeling-knicks-falter-without-jalen-brunson-in-loss-to-warriors-to-end-disappointing-road-trip\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knicks were pummeled twice in two days<\/a> and the head coach, fresh off his reunion tour in Northern California, was applauding the effort, a rather dispiriting effort, mind you, of a 126-113 defeat to the Warriors on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur competitiveness was there throughout the game,\u201d Mike Brown said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 James Dolan reminded us there wasn\u2019t much wriggle room with his team. Finals or Failure.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,563,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-541826","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-karl-anthony-towns","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkknicks","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115907962105909109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541826","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=541826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}