{"id":137489,"date":"2020-03-02T19:58:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T18:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=137489"},"modified":"2020-03-02T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T18:58:35","slug":"knicks-president-rose-i-will-do-my-utmost-to-make-the-fans-the-city-and-ownership-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/knicks-president-rose-i-will-do-my-utmost-to-make-the-fans-the-city-and-ownership-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks president Rose: \u201cI will do my utmost to make the fans, the City and ownership proud\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Madison Square Garden Company Executive Chairman and CEO James L. Dolan announced today that Leon Rose has been named President of the New York Knicks, effective immediately. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mr. Rose joins the organization from CAA Sports, where he was co-head of the basketball division and represented some of the NBA\u2019s biggest stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to welcome Leon to the New York Knicks as team president, and believe he is the right leader to build a winning organization for our fans,\u201d said Mr. Dolan. \u201cLeon is one of the most respected executives in professional basketball, with decades of experience successfully working with NBA players and team management in all facets of the game. We are confident he brings the right combination of expertise and relationships to ensure the long-term success of our franchise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his role as President, Mr. Rose will oversee all basketball operations and personnel for the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York is the epicenter of basketball and Madison Square Garden has always been very special to me. To be a part of the Knicks revitalization and basketball at The Garden is a challenge and a rare opportunity, one to be cherished, and I will do my utmost to make the fans, the City and ownership proud,\u201d said Mr. Rose. \u201cI want to thank Jim Dolan for this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>A message to our fans from Team President Leon Rose (1\/3): <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qc5Vh0cz0g\">pic.twitter.com\/qc5Vh0cz0g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyknicks\/status\/1234499968137859072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>(2\/3) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GXN1HRKwLb\">pic.twitter.com\/GXN1HRKwLb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyknicks\/status\/1234499969706491905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>(3\/3) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h3M2oj6TKT\">pic.twitter.com\/h3M2oj6TKT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyknicks\/status\/1234499971325579265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Rose address New York fans after being nominated president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[12409,1025],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-137489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-leon-rose-en","tag-new-york-knicks"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137489"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=137489"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=137489"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=137489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}