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With the clock winding down on the regular season, the battle for seeding in the Eastern Conference is intensifying.
Entering Tuesday night’s slate, Atlanta holds the fourth seed but is just two and a half games ahead of Charlotte for the eighth seed. The new rules placing the seventh- through 10th-seed teams in play-in games makes keeping a top-six spot even more important.
The Knicks are also a team in the middle of the Eastern Conference playoff cluster as the sixth seed. New York has worked hard to get to this spot recently, too. It has won six straight, and the two losses before this run came by a total of four points.
The lessons that shaped Tom Thibodeau s coaching renaissance with the New York Knicks
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Stephen A. Smith is excited about what he s seeing from the Knicks. (2:28)
One of the many criticisms about New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau was that he would be unable to adapt his eat-breathe-sleep basketball ways to a new wave of young players. But after being fired by the Minnesota Timberwolves in January 2019, Thibodeau is at the start of a third basketball act that many thought wasn t possible.
New York wasn t expected to win much in Thibodeau s first season, but as was the case in his first year with the Chicago Bulls in 2010-11, the team has exceeded expectations.