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1957–58 New York Knicks season

season of National Basketball Association team the New York Knicks

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ3875510 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1957–58 New York Knicks season was the 12th season for the team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). With a 35–37 regular season record, the Knicks did not qualify for the 1958 NBA Playoffs.

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Note: This is not an extensive list; it only covers the first and second rounds, and any other players picked by the franchise that played at least one game in the league.

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The public source identifies “1957–58 New York Knicks season” as season of National Basketball Association team the New York Knicks. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around York, Knicks and season.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 1958—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with York, Knicks and season providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3875510. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1957 and 1958.

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This entry incorporates text from “1957–58 New York Knicks season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.