NBA Tank Rankings: Remember when the Knicks were good?

Brooklyn Nets. 5. team. 147. <p>Don’t look now, but the Nets have won three out of five games.</p> <p>I promise. It happened.</p> <p>Brooklyn cruised to a double-digit home win over their in-city counterpart in the New York Knicks on Friday, and that was a strong way to come out of the gate after a reasonable close to the first “half” of the season. Of course, the Nets are still doing Nets-like things like hiring a general manager <em>on the day of the Trade Deadline</em>, but on the court, Brooklyn is undeniably playing better basketball and that counts for something in this space.</p>. (15-40). Previous:

(8-46). Previous: . Philadelphia 76ers. 4. team. 93. <p>It’s been a “status quo” week for the Sixers. Of course, Philadelphia only played one game since the last time we checked in, but it was a ho-hum 7-point defeat at the hands of the New Orleans Pelicans on the road. In short, that performance doesn’t do anything to affect Brett Brown’s team in this space.</p> <p>Philadelphia has lost three in a row and seven out of eight games, but it is a miracle that they aren’t worse. I’m sure we seem like a broken record in this regard, but Brown has this team competing in a way that the roster indicates should be impossible, and they aren’t playing like the worst team in the NBA, even if the record says otherwise.</p>

<p>At 23-33, it hasn’t been a disastrous season in the Big Apple, but things aren’t going well lately.</p> <p>First and foremost, the Knicks have lost seven straight games, including a double-digit loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Friday that didn’t exactly inspire confidence for the second half of the season. During that seven-game losing skid, New York has been outscored by 8.9 points per 100 possessions and, frankly, that isn’t competitive to the level of talent on the roster.</p> <p>Reaching the playoffs should <em>never</em> have been the goal for this organization this year, but they made an interesting move in canning Derek Fisher in-season and every public statement for New York seems to include a push for the postseason. It is time to reassess that goal.</p>. (23-33). Previous: . New York Knicks. 3. team. 27