{"id":81998,"date":"2025-12-27T02:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81998\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T02:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:23:09","slug":"inside-tyler-koleks-knicks-rise-how-hes-run-with-his-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81998\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Tyler Kolek&#8217;s Knicks rise, how he&#8217;s run with his opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 Tyler Kolek had no pregame shooting time booked, no expectation of playing that night in Orlando.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So Kolek hit the weight room for some arm reps, just searching for ways to be productive after three straight DNPs and an understanding he was firmly out of the rotation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rick Brunson, the Knicks assistant coach, brought surprising news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRick came over to me and was like, \u2018Get ready,\u2019 \u201d Kolek said in an interview with The Post. \u201cAnd I\u2019m like, \u2018Are you talking to me?\u2019 Cause I didn\u2019t play for two weeks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Tyler Kolek had no pregame shooting time booked, no expectation of playing that night in Orlando.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1556,4779,21,9,11,1104,10,319,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-81998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-mike-brown","9":"tag-miles-mcbride","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","16":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81998","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=81998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}