{"id":162036,"date":"2026-03-13T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162036\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:34:12","slug":"tight-lipped-leon-rose-will-be-reason-behind-knicks-season-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162036\/","title":{"rendered":"Tight-lipped Leon Rose will be reason behind Knicks’ season results"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 It\u2019s easy to forget about the quiet, which in Knicks World means Leon Rose. We\u2019re approaching five years\u00a0\u2014 amazingly \u2014 since the team president answered questions from the independent media, and I\u2019ve always maintained that\u2019s poor practice because it avoids responsibility. If there\u2019s no public explanation behind a move or a goal, there\u2019s no accountability if it doesn\u2019t work out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

So I appreciated James Dolan finally breaking his silence to WFAN last month<\/a>, giving fans his on-the-record expectations for this season and reasoning for firing Tom Thibodeau. You don\u2019t have to agree with Dolan, but you know where he stands and why he stands there. Rose stays completely away from such discussions and, frankly, people don\u2019t care anymore. It\u2019s just become an accepted part of Rose\u2019s tenure at the top of the front office. Even Stephen A. Smith stopped screaming about it.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean Rose\u2019s work isn\u2019t his. We just have to be more creative, more willing to speculate, to determine why decisions were made.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"WorldWorld Wide Wes and Knicks president Leon Rose react as they watch the the Knicks\u2019 loss to the Mavericks on Jan. 19, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

And when the dust clears on this season \u2014 the biggest season for the franchise in 25 years \u2014 a large portion will be at the feet of Rose, the glory or blame, depending on whether the Knicks are playing Game 1 of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 It\u2019s easy to forget about the quiet, which in Knicks World means Leon Rose.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36650,21,9,11,1104,10,319,431,428],"class_list":["post-162036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-leon-rose","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}