{"id":728999,"date":"2026-06-27T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728999\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:06:10","slug":"knicks-make-free-agency-decision-on-jose-alvarado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728999\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks make free agency decision on Jose Alvarado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">New York Knicks point guard Jose Alvarado is here to stay at home, according to ESPN insider Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cNew York guard Jose Alvarado is declining his $4.5 million player option and intends to sign a new three-year, $14-plus million deal to return to the Knicks, sources tell ESPN. Knicks made it a priority to retain the NY native who played key role on a historic championship team,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shamscharania\/status\/2070613366364656024?s=46&amp;t=8vPqb4w4Ei7IQgzPchQqJQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charania tweeted.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Trading for Alvarado was one of the most important moves of New York\u2019s season. In 28 regular-season games with the Knicks, he averaged 6.6 points and 3.8 assists per contest. He also averaged a steal per game, proving to be the menace he is on the defensive end of the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Knicks head coach Mike Brown explained how important Alvarado was to the team shortly after being acquired back in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe\u2019s been good. The quickness is irreplaceable. It gives us a different look,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\/knicks-news-mike-brown-jose-alvarado-irreplaceable-new-york\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brown said back in March<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s different in a way that kind of stands out. I don\u2019t know what that way would be, but Jose was available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cAnd I give Leon [Rose] credit, he got him. It\u2019s helped us on both ends of the floor. \u2026 The energy on top of the quickness that he brings to the table, every time we step on the floor, is irreplaceable. At least with the guys that we had, or the guys that we have. Just different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Posting and Toasting community, how do you feel about Alvarado\u2019s new deal? Chime off in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks point guard Jose Alvarado is here to stay at home, according to ESPN insider Shams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[308019,294812,355,99],"class_list":["post-728999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-knicks-free-agency","tag-knicks-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}