The New York Knicks have a complicated relationship with the Phil Jackson era. A vast majority of the individuals whom Jackson acquired have been shopped or successfully traded, and those who remain have struggled to find consistent playing time.
As Leon Rose progresses through the beginning stages of his tenure as team president, it appears as though he won’t be holding those same grudges.
Rose is a longtime agent whose agency happened to have worked with a current Knicks player: Frank Ntilikina. As such, speculation has mounted that Ntilikina, a Jackson holdover, could be shopped by an individual he’d seemingly scorned.