{"id":430335,"date":"2026-01-22T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430335\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:44:07","slug":"whats-behind-knicks-spiral-breaking-down-four-biggest-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430335\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s behind Knicks&#8217; spiral? Breaking down four biggest reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cJanuary to Forget\u201d has many offenders, and it would be <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/19\/sports\/everyone-on-the-knicks-is-to-blame-for-this-embarrassing-rock-bottom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unfair to single out one person<\/a> or reason why the Knicks went from NBA Cup champs to crashing.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s list four of the most important after the Knicks endured a stretch of nine losses in 11 games before <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/21\/sports\/knicks-destroy-nets-in-historic-laugher-to-snap-losing-skid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday night\u2019s historic rout of the Nets<\/a>, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>1. The defense<\/p>\n<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/19\/sports\/knicks-booed-off-court-after-worst-loss-of-season-to-mavericks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLK Day debacle at MSG<\/a>, the Knicks ranked 18th in points allowed per 100 possessions. No team is winning a title with those kinds of leaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cJanuary to Forget\u201d has many offenders, and it would be unfair to single out one person or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,19771,20449,193630,12834,15566,590,25466,1666,9275,15011,85,735],"class_list":["post-430335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-inside-the-knicks","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-leon-rose","tag-mikal-bridges","tag-mike-brown","tag-nba","tag-nba-trade-deadline","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-og-anunoby","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}