{"id":71946,"date":"2025-12-16T05:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71946\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:40:09","slug":"dwyane-wade-knows-the-secret-to-ex-agent-leon-roses-knicks-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71946\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwyane Wade knows the secret to ex-agent Leon Rose&#8217;s Knicks success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 After seeing Leon Rose negotiate mega contracts for all his friends, Dwyane Wade is not surprised that the former agent is succeeding as Knicks president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot at all. You see how much money he helps people get?\u201d Wade, the Hall of Fame player, said. \u201cHe\u2019s been incredible there. It feels like New York, what they\u2019re building out there, it has a feeling of New York. So that feels good for them. \u2026 They\u2019ve been doing an incredible job of finding the DNA that fans want to root for. And I think that\u2019s the most important thing for certain markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rose represented all the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/15\/carmelo-anthony-finally-reveals-the-truth-about-the-banana-boat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Banana Boat buddies<\/a>\u201d \u2014 Wade, Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James \u2014 before leaving Creative Artists Agency to run the Knicks.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.40273973;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36682869\" width=\"828\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Leon-Rose.jpg\" alt=\"Knicks president Leon Rose\" class=\"wp-image-36682869\"  \/>Knicks president Leon Rose Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>In his six seasons at the top of the front office, Rose helped transform the Knicks from a dysfunctional laughingstock into a legitimate contender for the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>With a win Sunday against the Spurs, the Knicks would win the NBA Cup and the franchise\u2019s first title \u2014 of any kind \u2014 since 1973. <\/p>\n<p>Still, Rose is camera shy and doesn\u2019t speak publicly about his success or anything else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeon is behind the scenes,\u201d Wade said. \u201cI don\u2019t think people even know how Leon looks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36161896\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dwyane-wade-speaks-onstage-new-104037162.jpg\" alt=\"Dwyane Wade speaking at The New York Times Well Festival.\" class=\"wp-image-36161896\"  \/>Dwyane Wade Getty Images for The New York Times<\/p>\n<p>Mikal Bridges has a favorite player, but he\u2019d pick somebody else to be his teammate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTracy McGrady. One of my favorite players ever. Just his talent,\u201d Bridges said. \u201cFor me personally, though, I think wouldn\u2019t be able to get the ball [if McGrady was my teammate]. So somebody like [Rajon] Rondo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OG Anunoby reiterated that winning the NBA Cup would be \u201cpretty cool\u201d but didn\u2019t want to lose sight of the main prerogative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one in June is our main goal,\u201d Anunoby said.<\/p>\n<p>So much for knowing Knicks history.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the three current players quizzed on New York\u2019s starting lineup for the 1999 Finals \u2014 Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Karl-Anthony Towns \u2014 only Brunson got one player.<\/p>\n<p>The lineup for that series against the Spurs was Charlie Ward, Latrell Sprewell, Allan Houston, Larry Johnson and Marcus Camby.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson, whose father was a reserve on the team, correctly named four but missed Ward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 After seeing Leon Rose negotiate mega contracts for all his friends, Dwyane Wade is not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36649,36650,21,9,11,1104,10,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-71946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-dwyane-wade","9":"tag-leon-rose","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71946","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=71946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}