{"id":130013,"date":"2026-02-11T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130013\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:38:13","slug":"the-obscure-stat-that-reveals-just-how-legit-knicks-title-hopes-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130013\/","title":{"rendered":"The obscure stat that reveals just how legit Knicks&#8217; title hopes are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Jackson knows a thing or two about winning championships.<\/p>\n<p>He captured 11 as a coach and two as a player.<\/p>\n<p>So, if there\u2019s anyone who knows best about what benchmarks matter en route to winning a championship, it\u2019s Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>And in all his years around the game, he\u2019s developed a simple theory to determine which teams are actual title contenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Jackson knows a thing or two about winning championships. He captured 11 as a coach and two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22381,21,9,11,1104,10,14231,4780,319,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-130013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-phil-jackson","15":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}