[1] With a 47–23 record, the Knicks won the regular season Eastern Division title by a half-game over the Syracuse Nationals and made the NBA Playoffs for the seventh consecutive year.
[1][2] In the first round of the 1953 NBA Playoffs, the Knicks swept the Baltimore Bullets 2–0 in a best-of-three series to advance to the Eastern Division finals.
There, New York defeated the Boston Celtics 3–1 to make the NBA Finals for the third straight year.
[2] The club would wait another 17 years to make an NBA championship final, winning it in 1970.
[1] 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.