The rare NBA quality that’s spurring these Knicks’ success

Source: New York Post

The way it works in the NBA, for the most part, is there is no magic switch. Unless you’re prime LeBron James and maybe 2023 Jimmy Butler, you can’t ride regular-season inactivity into a championship. Put another way — there’s a reason only two of the 79 NBA champions were seeded outside the top three in their respective conferences.