{"id":375635,"date":"2026-10-17T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375635\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:18:12","slug":"three-bold-predictions-for-the-knicks-2026-27-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375635\/","title":{"rendered":"Three bold predictions for the Knicks&#8217; 2026-27 NBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post\u2019s Stefan Bondy answers the biggest Knicks questions, makes bold predictions and picks the five biggest games of the 2026-27 season:<\/p>\n<p>Starting 5<\/p>\n<p>How much will the Knicks miss Mitchell Robinson?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/29\/sports\/knicks-players-very-surprised-by-mitchell-robinsons-departure-heartbroken\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knicks returned all but one rotational player from last season\u2019s title team<\/a>, but that one player was probably the team\u2019s best rim protector and rebounder.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, whose Knicks career lasted eight seasons, left for Boston in free agency, a casualty of James Dolan\u2019s second-apron mandate. The Knicks\u2019 response was signing Andre Drummond, 33, who is far from his peak All-Star days but remains strong on the glass.<\/p>\n<p>Can Drummond secure as many extra possessions as Robinson did and defend pick-and-rolls equally adeptly? Probably not. How much will that drop-off hurt the Knicks? We\u2019ll see. Regardless, the Knicks need production from Drummond because they\u2019re thin in the frontcourt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Post\u2019s Stefan Bondy answers the biggest Knicks questions, makes bold predictions and picks the five biggest games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4777,44600,4778,1555,4779,21,138160,9,11,1104,10,6474,319,428],"class_list":["post-375635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-james-dolan","tag-josh-hart","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-miles-mcbride","tag-nba","tag-nba-preview","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-og-anunoby","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375635","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=375635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}