{"id":679178,"date":"2026-03-26T00:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/679178\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:10:28","slug":"knicks-rolling-with-7-game-win-streak-but-now-come-real-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/679178\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks rolling with 7-game win streak, but now come real tests"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Knicks are about to return to reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They carry a seven-game winning streak<\/a> to their four-game road trip. All seven of those wins came against teams under. 500. All but one came against teams at least 23 games under. 500, in fact. The only other one was against the Warriors, who had a skeleton squad without Stephen Curry or Draymond Green.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGood teams win games that they\u2019re supposed to,\u201d Josh Hart said after the win over the Pelicans on Tuesday night<\/a> at Madison Square Garden. \u201cObviously anyone in the league can beat you on any given day. \u2026 It feels good. Obviously we got a tough nine or 10 games left to finish the season. It\u2019s all in preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NewJosh Hart with center Karl-Anthony Towns and forward OG Anunoby on the court during the third quarter of the Knicks\u2019 win over the Pelicans on March 24, 2026 at Madison Square Garden. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n

Yes, the schedule is certainly about to heat up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The surging Hornets, whom the Knicks play Thursday, are 22-6 in their past 28 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then comes a trip to the defending champion Thunder, who now have All-NBA guard Jalen Williams back in the lineup. He was out when the Knicks narrowly lost to Oklahoma City earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then comes a matchup with the Rockets before a reprieve by finishing the trip against the lowly Grizzlies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hovering over these games is a battle for the No. 2 seed in the East with the Celtics. The Knicks entered Wednesday just a few percentage points behind the Celtics with a chance to leapfrog them with a Boston loss to the Thunder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"CharlotteCharlotte guard LaMelo Ball handles the ball during the Hornets\u2019 blowout win over the Kings on March 24, 2026 at Spectrum Center. Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Are the Knicks paying attention to the standings jockeying?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe a little bit,\u201d Hart said. \u201cIt\u2019s still kind of early. There\u2019s a cluster of teams that are really close in the standings. Maybe in like four or five games I\u2019ll look at it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat\u2019s happening on and off the Garden court\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Knicks by Stefan Bondy, a weekly exclusive on Sports+.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

After about two weeks against NBA bottom-feeders, the Knicks enter the homestretch of the regular season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not always a determinant of playoff success, but it would behoove them to play their best basketball as the postseason approaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Landry Shamet (right knee contusion) will miss his third straight game Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks are about to return to reality.\u00a0 They carry a seven-game winning streak to their four-game road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,473,327,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806,179,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-679178","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-charlotte-hornets","10":"tag-josh-hart","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkknicks","17":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116292580042519432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679178","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=679178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}