{"id":760639,"date":"2026-06-14T07:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/760639\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:03:25","slug":"nba-power-rankings-after-new-york-knicks-win-2026-nba-finals-vs-san-antonio-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/760639\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Power Rankings After New York Knicks Win 2026 NBA Finals vs. San Antonio Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The 2025-26 campaign is in the books. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The New York Knicks, for the first time since 1973, are NBA champions. And that means it&#8217;s officially time to start looking ahead to the 2026-27 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">We&#8217;ll do that today with a way-to-soon version of the power rankings, one that&#8217;s subject to dramatic changes over the next several weeks and months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Trades, free agency and the draft are going to shake up every team in the league, but we can build that into the forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">With those considerations and our typical criteria (team and individual numbers, recent performance, championship chances and plenty of good, old-fashioned subjectivity), this is how the entire NBA shakes out right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-26 campaign is in the books. The New York Knicks, for the first time since 1973, are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,6],"class_list":["post-760639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-bulls","tag-basketball","tag-bulls","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-chicagobulls","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116747187263752072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760639","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=760639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}