New York Knicks forecast
Why the New York Knicks are where they are, and a rotation you can play with: move minutes, sit a player, see what changes. Updated every night.
Why New York is at 97% to make the playoffs
- 5-4 so far, heading for about 51 wins (43 to 58 in most of the seasons we played out).
- Plays like a team 6.4 points a game better than average, the 8th best rating in the league.
- 73 games left, and one of the easier schedules: the 10th easiest of 30.
- The rating leans most on Karl-Anthony Towns, Landry Shamet and OG Anunoby. Sit one of them in the rotation below to see how much he matters.
Our forecast
- Projected wins
- 51
- Playoffs
- 97%
- Title
- 5%
With Hart back
Replaying the season…
Play with the rotation
Every player starts at the minutes he's been playing and the rating we give him. Change either one, or sit someone, and we replay the rest of the season 2,000 times.
| Player | Overall | Min/game | Out? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jalen Brunson Star creator | Overall+1.2 | 34 min | |
| OG Anunoby Scoring wing | Overall+1.7 | 33 min | |
| Karl-Anthony Towns Interior big | Overall+2.5 | 31 min | |
| Mikal Bridges Spot-up shooter | Overall+1.5 | 26 min | |
| Landry Shamet Spot-up shooter | Overall+2.3 | 25 min | |
| Miles McBride Spot-up shooter | Overall+2.2 | 17 min | |
| Andre Drummond Rim-running big | Overall−0.9 | 13 min | |
| Tyler Kolek Playmaking guard | Overall+0.5 | 12 min | |
| Jordan Clarkson Scoring wing | Overall+1.0 | 10 min | |
| End of the bench | 39 min |
Hurt right now
The forecast at the top of the page counts these players out for the rest of the season. Here they come back on the date shown, at the minutes they were playing before. Change a date to see what it does.
- Josh Hart ankle soreness · 2 games missed · usually back between Nov 10 and Nov 21
Around them in the standings
The teams just above and below them in the East, by projected wins.
- Boston58 projected wins · >99%
- Detroit57 projected wins · >99%
- New York51 projected wins · 97%
- Philadelphia49 projected wins · 94%
- Atlanta48 projected wins · 93%
The roster by type of player
Share of the team's minutes, by the player type each played like last season, next to the league average.
- Star creator
- Playmaking guard
- Scoring wing
- Spot-up shooter
- Low-usage role player
- Rim-running big
- Interior big
- New this season
Pick the rest of the games yourself in the playoff predictor
How the forecast works, and how often it's right
Sitting a player hands his minutes to the rest of the rotation; moving minutes yourself takes them from, or gives them to, the end of the bench. The team's rating follows who plays the minutes. Ratings and player types are ours, built from play-by-play data. Not affiliated with the NBA.