New York Knicks' uncharacteristic flexibility is the only thing that can save their future

EXACTLY TWO YEARS ago, the New York Knicks officially hired Leon Rose as president of basketball operations.

Since then, Rose has had one in-person news conference -- a gathering with a small group of reporters prior to the 2021-22 NBA season at the team's practice facility in Westchester, New York. Throughout that 40-minute chat, Rose identified three tenets that underpinned the Knicks' offseason moves:

Stability, continuity and flexibility.

The first two tenets were callbacks to the team's surprising success in the 2020-21 season. Julius Randle, coming off the best season of his career, signed a four-year, $117 million extension. Derrick Rose, the catalyst of New York's midseason turnaround…