{"id":248581,"date":"2022-12-19T13:53:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=248581"},"modified":"2022-12-19T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T19:54:10","slug":"new-york-knicks-and-brooklyn-nets-both-surging-while-returning-home-for-christmas-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-york-knicks-and-brooklyn-nets-both-surging-while-returning-home-for-christmas-week\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets Both Surging While Returning Home for Christmas Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
Giants fans were ecstatic and Jets fans were apoplectic Monday following an epic weekend of football that also included basketball. And whether those same fans also like the Knicks or the Nets did not matter. Both New York teams are among the NBA’s hottest right now, and what came out of Pacers coach Rich Carlisle’s mouth Sunday was stunning.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, New York is as good as any team in the NBA.\u201d<\/p>\n
A mouthful from the head of the NBA Coaches Association, and it is not exactly reflected that way at New York’s nine sportsbooks. The Knicks odds to win the NBA championship are:<\/p>\n
That is quite the disparity, and while absolutely nobody is counseling you to dream big if you are a Knicks fan and think that the first championship is a realistic possibility, facts are facts. And the fact of the matter is that the NBA’s longest winning streak currently belongs to Tom Thibodeau’s squad, which made it seven straight by dominating the final 2 minutes defensively in a 109-106 victory Sunday in which most of the sporting world was obsessing on the World Cup and the NFL.<\/p>\n
The Nets weren’t bad either, with Kevin Durant (43 points) and Kyrie Irving (38) becoming the first teammates since Durant and Russell Westbrook a decade ago in Oklahoma City to have a third game of at least 35 points apiece in a single season. Penny Hardaway and Shaquille O’Neal in Orlando were the only other NBA teammates to accomplish the feat over the past 30 years.<\/p>\n
There is an old saying that the NBA season begins for the public on Christmas Day, because that is when the public starts paying attention as the league plays a quintupleheader that includes Philadelphia playing the Knicks at Madison Square Garden at noon. If Santa treats the Knicks well prior to that, they’ll have their winning streak up to 10 after the Warriors (without Steph Curry) and then the slumping Raptors and Bulls play at MSG over the course of this week. (Side bets on whether Nick Nurse and Billy Donovan survive the week can only be made offline with your buddies.)<\/p>\n
\nMaking it happen together. #NewYorkForever<\/a><\/p>\n
JB 30 PTS | 2 AST | 2 STL
JU 25 PTS | 14 REB | 3 AST
RJ 24 PTS | 4 REB | 1 BLK pic.twitter.com\/v1pjf7WBmJ<\/a><\/p>\n— NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n