Jose Alvarado once dreamed of being the next Jos\u00e9 Reyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As he prepares to fulfill a different lifelong dream<\/a> by playing for the Knicks in the NBA Finals, Alvarado spent a night off Wednesday with his family at Citi Field during the Mets\u2019 4-2 win over the Reds<\/a>. <\/p>\n He grew up a Mets fan about 15 minutes away in Brooklyn during the years that Reyes manned shortstop.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jose Alvarado on the field before the Mets\u2019 4-2 win over the Reds on Jose Alvarado had his own jersey. Ryan Dunleavy\/New York Post<\/p>\n Knicks guard Jose Alvarado (5) before the game. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n Alvarado was presented with a Mets jersey with his name and No. 5 on the back as well as other Mets memorabilia. <\/p>\n He practiced his imaginary swing in the dugout and signed an autograph for a thrilled young Knicks fan before going to the clubhouse to meet some players.\u00a0<\/p>\n Alvarado is averaging 4.2 points and 1.1 assists in 8.5 minutes per game during the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Eastern Conference champion Knicks will visit the winner of the Thunder\/Spurs series June 3 in their first NBA Finals game since 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose Alvarado once dreamed of being the next Jos\u00e9 Reyes.\u00a0 As he prepares to fulfill a different lifelong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,11053,1203,6,1220,11,56381,191,442,66],"class_list":["post-745890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-jose-alvarado","tag-mlb","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116650314572115778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745890","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=745890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
May 27, 2026 at Citi Field. Ryan Dunleavy\/New York Post<\/p>\n