![]() But would Harden make them better next season, and maybe help Randle get better? He might. Is James Harden any kind of long-term answer for the Knicks? No one thinks that he is. The Suns have made a big play for Bradley Beal. For now, the Celtics make a big play for an ex-Knick named Kristaps Porzingis. So Knick fans are willing to hang with him while he waits for a top star to want to come to New York the way Lillard, from all accounts, wants to go to Miami. The reason Rose got his chance at the Garden is because the Knicks had become an outrageous and embarrassing failure, over far too long a time. Before they got a first-round series off the Cavaliers this past spring, it had been 10 years since they got a first-round series off the Celtics. It is 24 years since they were in the Finals. It has been 50 years since the Knicks won a title. But he doesn’t have all the time in the world, no matter how many draft choices he still has in his pocket. There’s still time to make a run with the Villanova guys, and RJ Barrett and Julius Randle and Immanuel Quickley and Mitchell Robinson. Again: Rose has had just three years at the Garden. Riley knows as well as anyone that you only get so much time in sports, and especially in pro basketball, to make a run. You know why Riley wants to make a big move here? Because he knows that another window is closing in Miami. Embiid would be worth waiting for, if Rose thinks there might be a legitimate shot, even more than Zion Williamson, who doesn’t just come with more weight but more baggage. You keep hearing that the star he might be willing to wait for is Joel Embiid, on the chance that the Sixers might be on the verge of a teardown after the upcoming season. Moving up from the middle of the pack in the conference to the top of it. As crazy as this sounds, just because of the joke the Knicks had become over the two decades before Rose got to the Garden, getting the Knicks this far is the easy part compared to what comes next: There has to be some urgency now for Rose, as patient an executive as he obviously likes being, if not as much as he likes being the New York City sports executive that the media can’t find. ![]() They have finished fourth in the Eastern Conference and finished fifth, and won just the team’s second playoff series – wait for it – in this century. In that time, Rose has done a lot, mostly because the Knicks have come back from being on the wrong side of the clown line in the NBA. Leon Rose became president of the basketball operation at Madison Square Garden a little over three years ago, March of 2020.
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