Don’t look now, but the Knicks are heating up once again with the playoffs just over a month away.
Then came Wednesday’s 24-point beatdown against Brooklyn, which wasn’t even this team’s biggest win of the season.
Three of those teams won it all; two reached the NBA Finals; and the other six averaged a better than 60-win pace with two trips to the conference finals.Still, there are reasons to be cautious with this group. A closer look at that list of 11 teams to pull off similar win streaks during the regular season reveals a common and discouraging theme: the teams that fell short of a Finals run often lacked one central star or were still one piece away from getting over the hump , while the three teams that won it all – the Spurs and Warriors – were among the most talented teams in NBA history.
They also have zero top-15 players on the roster, which is essentially a prerequisite for winning a title in today’s NBA.If the playoffs started today, New York would match up with fellow upstart Cleveland, which is built similarly but features a legitimate superstar in Donovan Mitchell and a better collection of surrounding talent.
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