Winning once makes you immortal. But there is a winner every year. 

Repeating and doing it again, though? That elevates you into that special, exclusive pantheon of all-time great teams. The tier of the most memorable winners ever. The legacies that define eras. 

“The great thing about winning is you don’t realize how good it is until you do it,” Joe Girardi told The Post. “And then you want more of it.” 

That’s where the Knicks now find themselves. After winning the franchise’s first championship in 53 years, they look to repeat in a time of overwhelming parity in the NBA — the league’s last eight champions have failed to win the title the following year.