
What moments defined the Knicks’ 2024, and which will determine the fate of the season ahead?
NY Post
You’d have to go back a ways to find a calendar year as good to the Knicks as 2024. They went 56-27 spanning two regular seasons, taking off almost immediately as New Year’s hit. They extended their coach’s contract, promoting stability. They reshaped the roster. They left the year looking like legitimate contenders.
Below, we’ll look back at the best and worst moments (yes, there were a few of those as well) and glance ahead at the biggest questions of 2025:
Donte’s shot
It was only Game 2 of the first round, but an unforgettable sequence, an unforgettable atmosphere, an unforgettable reaction, an unforgettable series.

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











