The Knicks schedule was released in drips earlier this week, with their season opener and Christmas contest \u2014 both against the Cavs \u2014 serving as the highlights.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the entire slate announced Thursday afternoon, there\u2019s an opportunity to probe the 82 games further.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here are five takeaways:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Big national exposure<\/p>\n
The Knicks are in a four-way tie for the most national TV games this season, joining the Lakers, Warriors and Thunder with 34 each. They\u2019re the only Eastern Conference team in the top seven, an expected development given the franchise\u2019s permeating popularity and their conference finals run. National TV has a different definition given the NBA\u2019s new media rights deal and includes contests on any of NBC, Peacock, Amazon Prime, ABC and ESPN. It\u2019s not a good advertisement for local cable that nearly half the games will be broadcast elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks schedule was released in drips earlier this week, with their season opener and Christmas contest \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,2357,8217,2697,8231,459,2901,3543,10679,82,2089],"class_list":["post-70916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-ny-sports-minute","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}