The sportsbooks are placing the barely-changed New York Knicks as the 13th-best team in the NBA entering the 2024 season with a win projection of 45.5 games.
The Knicks find themselves below five other Eastern Conference teams, including the Celtics, Bucks, Cavs, 76ers, and Heat in that order. The win projections of those five franchises range from 54.5 (Boston, no. 1 overall) to 48.5 (Miami, 9th-best).
New York is coming off a season in which they posted a .573 winning percentage and won 47 games, the most since they burned the league to the tune of 54 wins in 2013.