{"id":585628,"date":"2026-02-06T06:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/585628\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T06:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:13:16","slug":"leon-rose-quietly-makes-knicks-better-with-solid-deadline-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/585628\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Rose quietly makes Knicks better with solid deadline moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks were more of a passive participant at the trade deadline, but the smoke cleared without a change to the following:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are favorites, along with the Pistons, to get to the NBA Finals. James Dolan\u2019s mandate remains in place and realistic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/05\/sports\/giannis-antetokounmpo-posts-wolf-of-wall-street-video-after-not-getting-traded\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giannis Antetokounmpo sticking with Milwaukee<\/a> created a stationary vibe around the East, with Cleveland\u2019s somewhat offsetting swap of Darius Garland for James Harden as the headline. I understand the Garland-Donovan Mitchell pairing probably ran its course. I don\u2019t understand how acquiring a 36-year-old Harden made them better in the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.24878049;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38404951\" width=\"737\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jose-Alvarado-2.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Alvarado gives the Knicks a bonafide backup point guard, The Post's Stephan Bondy writes.\" class=\"wp-image-38404951\"  \/>Jose Alvarado gives the Knicks a bonafide backup point guard, The Post\u2019s Stephan Bondy writes. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/03\/sports\/bulls-trading-nikola-vucevic-to-celtics-for-anfernee-simons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtics got Nikola Vucevic<\/a>, but not much changed on their front \u2014 it\u2019s still all about when, or if, Jayson Tatum returns.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks were more of a passive participant at the trade deadline, but the smoke cleared without a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,11053,304,7093,6,2828,1136,191,3810,3806,3027,66,196],"class_list":["post-585628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-knicks","tag-basketball","tag-jose-alvarado","tag-knicks","tag-leon-rose","tag-nba","tag-nba-trade-deadline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkknicks","tag-ny-sports-minute","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116022215867990014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}