{"id":716288,"date":"2026-04-23T01:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716288\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:30:17","slug":"mike-brown-cant-risk-knicks-mess-he-helped-create-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716288\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Brown can&#8217;t risk Knicks mess he helped create getting worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a big game for Mike Brown. No question.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There will be bigger games in the near future \u2014 perhaps as early as this weekend \u2014 but, to this point, Thursday\u2019s Game 3 in Atlanta is the weightiest of his Knicks tenure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After all, Brown is coming off a close defeat to an inferior opponent, the type of loss that serves as a poor reflection on the guy roaming the sideline. A bad lineup from Brown, a bad sub, a bad timeout \u2014 one mistake could\u2019ve meant all the difference in Monday\u2019s 107-106 Game 2 nail-biting loss to the Hawks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And frankly, Brown gave us a lot to second-guess:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a big game for Mike Brown. No question.\u00a0 There will be bigger games in the near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[208,7,6,11,56381,191,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-716288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-playoffs","12":"tag-nba-playoffs-2026","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116451437656651234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716288","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=716288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}