The Knicks’ franchise has finally found continuity

In sports, you rarely see a team pop up out of nowhere and win it all. An unfortunate truth of the nature of sports is that it might take four or five cracks with the same nucleus to get over the top. The Celtics finally got over the hump by adding strong reinforcements to their core centered around Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. The Nuggets got over the hump as their core of Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and Michael Porter Jr. matured under coach Michael Malone. The duo of Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton took several years to make and win the NBA Finals. There’s also, of course, the Warriors. They won four titles with their continuity of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green under Steve Kerr (although two of those titles also came with a certain Slim Reaper). Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Phil Jackson won six titles. Do you see what I’m getting at here?

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