{"id":706519,"date":"2026-04-09T10:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706519\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:33:29","slug":"which-knicks-are-facing-the-harshest-scrutiny-in-nba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706519\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Knicks are facing the harshest scrutiny in NBA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve talked about it exhaustively, basically ever since Tom Thibodeau was fired, about how these Knicks are under immense pressure to succeed in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time it\u2019s a generalized statement like, \u201cThe Knicks better win.\u201d Or, \u201cIt\u2019s Finals-or-bust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s delve deeper. Get a little bit more personal about the weight of the expectations. It\u2019s a different scale for different folks.<\/p>\n<p>So let us present the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/10\/sports\/knicks-playoffs-pressure-index-mikal-bridges-tom-thibodeau-top-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second annual Playoff Pressure Meter<\/a> from Post Sports+, a list of the top five Knicks facing the biggest blowbacks \u2014 and potential consequences \u2014 if they don\u2019t perform and win in the 2026 playoffs:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve talked about it exhaustively, basically ever since Tom Thibodeau was fired, about how these Knicks are under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,20219,288,563,7093,3357,1247,6,191,3823,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-706519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-inside-the-knicks","10":"tag-jalen-brunson","11":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","12":"tag-leon-rose","13":"tag-mike-brown","14":"tag-mitchell-robinson","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116374300540253854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706519","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=706519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}