CLEVELAND \u2014 We talk about GMs and trust a lot around here, but we\u2019ve never actually qualified that in an honest-to-goodness index system. So let\u2019s do it, with six categories:<\/p>\n
Master Class<\/p>\n
1. Leon Rose, Knicks: It\u2019s hard to argue who the single-most-trusted man in New York sports is right now. It isn\u2019t even a close vote. Here\u2019s the thing, too: Leon didn\u2019t construct this team via public consensus. Signing Jalen Brunson was considered a clever acquisition, but there was a lot of noise that he overpaid, and by a lot, as a favor to the son of an old friend (and his first client).<\/p>\n
Every other move \u2014 Karl-Anthony-Towns (too soft!), Mikal Bridges (gave up too much!), OG Anunoby (what\u2019ll we do without RJ & Quick!), even Josh Hart (yes, there were actually some angry Cam Reddish loyalists) \u2014 caused at least a beat of consternation, as did the firing of Tom Thibodeau.<\/p>\n
Depends on Which Day of the Week You Ask<\/p>\n
1. Brian Cashman, Yankees: OK, here\u2019s where the fun begins, because I realize that by listing him so high I immediately declare war with an angry faction of Yankees fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 We talk about GMs and trust a lot around here, but we\u2019ve never actually qualified that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11947,44316,38532,19920,19884,36650,9,11,10,23626,8439,319,431,428],"class_list":["post-241954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-brian-cashman","tag-chris-drury","tag-darren-mougey","tag-david-stearns","tag-joe-schoen","tag-leon-rose","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-open-mike","tag-sean-marks","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241954","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=241954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}