{"id":707910,"date":"2026-04-11T04:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707910\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T04:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:36:33","slug":"these-battle-tested-knicks-are-ready-bring-on-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707910\/","title":{"rendered":"These battle-tested Knicks are ready \u2014 bring on the playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The playoffs are different. The intensity is different. The stakes are different. The Garden is different.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And as the regular season comes to an end against the Hornets on Sunday, the Knicks wear the look of a dangerous team ready and willing \u2014 TBD if they are able \u2014 to embrace the great expectations of James Dolan\u2019s NBA Finals-or-Bust mandate \u2026 and of bloodthirsty, championship-starved Knicks fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks served up a delicious appetizer for the upcoming main course and captured the No. 3 seed with a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/10\/sports\/knicks-cruise-past-raptors-to-lock-in-easts-no-3-playoff-seed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">112-95 beatdown of the Raptors<\/a> on Friday night, keeping their feet on the gas following their Thursday win over the hated Celtics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This time it was Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns showing what the Knicks can be when they are Double Trouble, Batman and Robin, Clyde and Willis.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The playoffs are different. The intensity is different. The stakes are different. The Garden is different.\u00a0 And as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,288,563,6,191,681,66,198,196,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-707910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jalen-brunson","10":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-raptors","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-toronto","18":"tag-toronto-raptors","19":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116384221391039078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707910","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=707910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}