To anyone who just woke up from a coma they’d been in since before this season started, this is not a drill: one month from the playoffs, the Knicks own the longest active winning streak in the NBA and sit in fourth place in the Eastern Conference.
The streak has been so lovely that not a single Knicks fan cared at all when people tried to make a thing out of Zion Williamson liking New York. Why wouldn’t he like New York? It’s home to the hottest team in basketball.
The last time the Knicks won eight straight was 2013-14, when Andrea Bargnani graced the Madison Square Garden court like a gazelle that had just barely survived a lion attack.