{"id":76377,"date":"2025-06-04T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/76377\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:45:10","slug":"leon-rose-roster-in-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/76377\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Rose, roster in spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for the best run in a generation, now there\u2019s the door.<\/p>\n<p>That was Leon Rose to Tom Thibodeau on Tuesday as the team president who famously never explains himself made a move that requires explanation at length and that could define his tenure at the helm of the Knicks, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/03\/sports\/knicks-fire-tom-thibodeau-after-playoff-ouster-in-stunning-shakeup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">firing Thibodeau days after the Knicks\u2019 season ended<\/a> with a conference finals loss to the Pacers.<\/p>\n<p>On the heels of not just the best year the Knicks have had since 2000, but their best multiyear run since the mid-90s heyday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/03\/sports\/nba-world-stunned-by-tom-thibodeaus-knicks-firing-league-insider\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the move was shocking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelationship and communication issues surfaced\u201d with Thibodeau, according to The Post\u2019s Stefan Bondy, who reported \u201cmultiple Knicks were frustrated with the coach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks for the best run in a generation, now there\u2019s the door. That was Leon Rose to Tom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,4517,304,7093,6,1136,191,3810,3806,3823,66,196,1416],"class_list":{"0":"post-76377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-leon-rose","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkknicks","17":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-tom-thibodeau"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114625637548006611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76377","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=76377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}