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Home fans. Home court. And a real bed to sleep in at night.

All of the above, Jalen Brunson says, is why home-court advantage matters — and why, if you can help it, you chase it.

The Knicks have certainly helped themselves. They’re 10–1 at Madison Square Garden to open the 2025–26 season, the second-best home record in the league. Only the reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder have been better, sitting at an unblemished 10–0 at the Paycom Center.

“I feel like protecting home court in the NBA is really, really important,” Miles McBride said after Sunday’s 116–98 win over the Raptors. “MSG is a place where guys want to come in and really get off, so we have to be even more locked in at home than other places.”

The 1992–93 Knicks set the sin

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