These New York Knicks are great, but they aren’t doing anything they had not done before.
Back in the 2001 season, New York limited opponents to a meager 951 total points through January. Since the introduction of the three-point shot in the 1980 season, that’s the fewer points a franchise has allowed through the first month of the season—no other team has surrendered fewer than 1,000 points in January, ever.
That’s an average of 86.4 PPG allowed, which is way better than the 1,406 total points and 100.4 PPG surrendered by the 2024 Knicks.