Winning once makes you immortal. But there is a winner every year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Repeating and doing it again, though? That elevates you into that special, exclusive pantheon of all-time great teams. The tier of the most memorable winners ever. The legacies that define eras.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe great thing about winning is you don\u2019t realize how good it is until you do it,\u201d Joe Girardi told The Post. \u201cAnd then you want more of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s where the Knicks now find themselves. After winning the franchise\u2019s first championship in 53 years, they look to repeat in a time of overwhelming parity in the NBA \u2014 the league\u2019s last eight champions have failed to win the title<\/a> the following year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winning once makes you immortal. But there is a winner every year.\u00a0 Repeating and doing it again, though?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85165,21,138160,9,11,1104,10,319,428,26032,138208],"class_list":["post-375865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-joe-girardi","tag-nba","tag-nba-preview","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-steve-kerr","tag-steve-spagnuolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375865","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=375865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}