According to The Athletic’s Fred Katz, the New York Knicks president has yet again declined a request to hold an end-of-season media availability. That means that the organization hasn’t seen a high-ranking member of its front office speak on the record to independent media in nearly three years, which is nearly preposterous— especially in the New York sports scene.
The Knicks are one of the best teams in the league and have probably had a good chance at capturing the Larry O’Brien Trophy since 1973, if not for injuries to many key contributors and star players.
But because they’re winning, there doesn’t seem to be any national media pushback to do a solo press conference, which Rose has not done since assuming control of the organization in April 2020. Rose, to his credit, has built a perennial winner. However, the thought of a former Knicks executive – say, Phil Jackson — refusing to speak to reporters and be transparent in any way possible while doling that responsibility to his coaching staff would not go over particularly well.
But Knicks fans don’t seem to care.
