The Utah Jazz’s winning streak started with a loss.
After the New York Knicks rallied from 16 points down to beat the Jazz at Madison Square Garden, Rudy Gobert and his teammates used the defeat as a chance to reassess and reset.
“That loss against the Knicks, I see it as a win,” Gobert said Tuesday, “because that’s when we really understand what we needed to do as a team to be great.”
The Jazz have now won nine games in a row since that loss in Manhattan. Their latest victims: the New York Knicks. In a 108-94 win at Vivint Arena, the Jazz rallied from a 15-point deficit to get a little payback and extended their league-best winning streak to 9.