Can Leon Rose Save the Knicks?
The Lead
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🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The long-suffering New York Knicks are turning to an unlikely savior: NBA agent Leon Rose is expected to take over as team president. The Athletic's Mike Vorkunov joins us to talk about how the Knicks landed on Rose, whether or not he'll actually be able to turn things around, and why more and more teams are staffing their front offices with player agents.
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https://theathletic.com/1590270/2020/02/07/knicks-finally-have-a-reason-for-optimism-with-leon-rose-coming-and-marcus-morris-exiting/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:00.0 | The New York Knicks have been bad this year. |
| 0:09.6 | Like really bad. |
| 0:12.2 | Are you kidding me? |
| 0:13.7 | Today is simply the confirmation that the New York Knicks are the worst, the most clueless |
| 0:20.5 | organization. |
| 0:21.5 | And in the midst of this awful season, there's been a lot of turnover at Madison Square |
| 0:26.0 | Cardiff. |
| 0:27.0 | So big news today. |
| 0:28.0 | What do you got? |
| 0:29.0 | The Knicks have fired David Fistill. |
| 0:31.0 | The news won't let any tells what's going on there. |
| 0:33.2 | New York has fired their president, Steve Mills, Scott Perry. |
| 0:37.8 | And now the Knicks are turning to an unlikely savior, an NBA agent, Leon Rose, who has |
| 0:43.8 | represented Carmelo Anthony, Alan Iverson, and a number of other high-profile players. |
| 0:48.8 | He's expected to take over as the next team president. |
| 0:52.1 | Today we're joined by Mike Vorkanov of the athletic to talk about why the Knicks landed |
| 0:56.5 | on Rose, whether or not he can actually turn this thing around, and why more and more |
| 1:01.5 | teams are turning to agents for help. |
| 1:05.1 | From wondering on the athletic, I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 1:07.6 | And I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:08.6 | It's Thursday, February 20th, and this is the lead. |
| 1:12.4 | It felt like something great was happening. |
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