There are a number of important Knick traditions, like never kicking anything to the curb, acknowledging how big the East is, waiting until the final Media Day before the season begins to say cryptic shit that people can spin multiple different ways, and, of course, everyone at Knickberblogger predicting how many wins we all think that the Knicks will win this season.
Last season, I went big, and said 58, and the Knicks fell seven shy of that total. So, I should totally lower my prediction this season, but………man, the rest of the East freaking SUCKS, man. The only other good team from last season that didn’t get totally decimated was the Cleveland Cavaliers, and they’re missing a number of good players to start the season, so I really don’t see how the Knicks WON’T improve this season, so eff it, I’m sticking with 58 wins.
Okay, that’s my pick, now I’ll open it up to all of you, along with a poll!
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14 replies on “The “How Many Wins Will The Knicks Have In 2025-26?” Prediction Thread”
55-27 in a weakened East, second seed behind Cleveland.
Just as Pennywise the clown returns every 27 years to feast on a new crop of children, Pagliacci emerges from his long offseason slumber!
I predict 48 wins as we figure to have worse injury luck than last year. Mitch has already started on missing 60+ games and we’re unlikely to get 72+ again from all of OG, Towns, and Hart.
There’s also the (likely overall net positive) factor that Mike Brown will not be redlining the starters to pull out every last win.
The East is not nearly as soft as it looks with ATL/ORL/DET all having very good shots to overtake us with their developing young talent and added pieces. Come playoff time we might see Tatum and Haliburton back in action, all of which adds up to a 2nd round playoff ceiling.
dagnabbit, E swiped my guess…
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51
I’m coming in scorching hot with the bold prediction of… 54 wins. I think we’ll see some gains due to better schemes, a deeper roster and a weaker East, but we’ll also see less Thibs-style running the starters into the ground to win meaningless games in November.
I said 51 so I am sticking with 51. Maybe 52.
49 wins, slow adaptation to MB’s schemes and Mitch load management( wise to save him for playoffs). Agree that the East not as soft as depicted. Embid back with a vengeance, Orlando better than expected. That said, Knicks will make the ECFs( they gel post ASB) and…… ( I have no clue).
56. I was a bit pessimistic last year and went under by a couple wins, first time in three years I missed. I may be overcorrecting, but the East really does stink.
I’ll have to do my East rankings tonight, too… Think that went pretty well last year, but the proof (or lack thereof) is out there…
I went with 53 wins last season and the Knicks screwed me the final week blowing 3 double digit 2nd half leads in a row which lead to my pessimistic meltdown that Z-man rightfully often reprimanded me about during the playoffs.
Gun to my head I’ll go with 54 wins although I chose 55-57 wins in the poll cause it would be pretty awesome to watch a Knicks team win that many regular season games for the first time since the 1996-97 season.
But reality is doesn’t really matter if Knicks only win even just 48 games the key is to finish with a Top 3 seed again and if they accomplish that and are healthy come playoff time I’ll still expect them to reach the NBA Finals.
I think we probably win low 50’s for some of the reasons that others enumerated here. We seem to be a very similar team to last year with a new coach who seems like kind of a lateral move– he brings some much needed change, as things had gotten stale under Thibs, but Brown is not really a higher caliber coach than Thibs. So to me that’s sort of a push.
You probably get more minutes from Mitch, which will probably be offset by fewer minutes from some of the other rotation guys just to sheer injury luck. Again, probably kind of a push. We don’t seem to have any players who are capable of some sort of leap. Mikal could play better, I guess, but does anybody expect to see a radically different and more productive Mikal? I know I don’t.
The guys who put this team together did a solid job of getting it to the top of the conference, but they used up all of the flexibility, and now it’s very difficult to make marginal upgrades. The most glass-half-full take I can manage is that we have some continuity, some of the players might feel some relief to no longer be playing with Thibs, and that Thibs was not a good fit for the KAT-era personnel, so maybe we get some improved synergy and win more in the mid-to-high 50’s. In this scenario, everybody stays relatively healthy, Clarkson/Yabu gives you what you hope they give you, Hukporti steps up and becomes a useful rotation piece, and the team min/maxes three point shooting better and plays a defensive scheme that is a better fit with the personnel.
Some of those things will probably happen, and some won’t. Or maybe none of those things will happen. I’ll split the difference and say we win 51 games again.
Big years for Brunson, Bridges, & KAT (all three much better than last year) lead to 58 wins, the 1 seed in the East, and a puncher’s chance in the NBA Finals.
Cleveland disappoints; we face Orlando in the ECF.
Fuck it. 60 wins. And I’ll throw in coach-of-the-year for Mike Brown, first team all NBA for Brunson, 2nd team for KAT, and even a first-time-ever All Defense for OG.
My “outlier” prediction is that there’s a materially non-zero chance Mike Brown doesn’t last the year. Whether through naivete, or intentionally, he’s already pointed fingers twice at a particular department (“performance team”), revealed how the sausage is made, and made them potentially look bad. Dolan doesn’t take well to such things and I’m frankly quite surprised at Brown’s framing of his answers. Nor was Brown even close to the FO’s preferred choice for this job.
It will take things not working as well as projected on the pure basketball side for this to happen, but if things go a bit south, don’t be shocked if there’s a new coach prior to the playoffs. Far stranger things have happened in Knick-ville.
53.
I’d go higher if you could guarantee me ~55 healthy Mitch games, but I’m pretty spooked about the fact that we’re apparently talking about “load managing” him for the season opener. Without him, cobbling together a good defense will be tough. Clarkson and Yabu help us in important ways offensively, but they, um, don’t do that defensively. I still like the idea of bringing in DSJ if he’s still available when we can sign a 15th man (or earlier if there’s a trade).
But the offense should let them coast through a lot of the East, and Huk might be decent enough to not let the bottom fall out of the defense when Mitch is out.
I’ll say the offense finishes 3rd, with it getting off to a rough-ish start while we iron out Brown’s DHO heavy system but finishing strong.
13th for the defense, with a comical Mitch on/off. We really, really should seek to generate more turnovers, which is largely on Mikal. A better season from him can make this look unduly pessimistic. Make it happen!
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