This happens too often for it to be an outlier anymore. Whether or not you think the plus-minus statistic is as vital to basketball as it is to hockey, it\u2019s inarguable that it is usually a fair snapshot of the impact a player has on a game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And more often than not, when the Knicks have won a basketball game, the likelihood is that Mitchell Robinson will be on the plus side of that hyphen. Often by a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Knicks won a basketball game Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. They looked like they were playing underwater for three quarters and let the woeful Sacramento Kings (playing short-handed) hang around long enough for it to be 72-72. But they pulled away and won a game they were absolutely forbidden to lose 103-87. That\u2019s three wins in a row<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Then you looked at the boxscore.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This happens too often for it to be an outlier anymore. Whether or not you think the plus-minus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,1247,6,1136,191,3810,3806,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-565871","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-knicks","10":"tag-mitchell-robinson","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\/115971773420533582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565871","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=565871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}