WOJ + SHAMS BOMB: The Knicks Are Reportedly Hiring CAA Agent Leon Rose As Team President And World Wide Wes In A Basketball Ops Role
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Yup, that definitely qualifies as a double nuclear bomb on this trade deadline despite not player changing teams. Any Knicks fan that follows NBA free agency (AKA every single one of us Photoshop addicted idiots) knows the names Leon Rose and Worldwide Wes hold on the NBA. Leon Rose is one of the biggest power brokers in the NBA that helped from The Big 3 in Miami and had a prettyyyy prettyyyyyyy prettyyyyyyyyy solid stable of clients at CAA.
While World Wide Wes' name has continued to rise in NBA circles despite a shitload of people having no clue what the fuck he does. But being linked with LeBron James and mentioned in a Drake song sure as shit ain't a bad thing to have on your NBA resume. If the NBA and free agency has taught us anything, it's just about the relationships you have in your franchise as it is how successful your franchise is. Which is why I am fine with this hire on paper. Because if Leon Rose and Wes can tell James Dolan to go on tour with his shitty band for the foreseeable future and never go near MSG during a Knicks game ever again, the Knicks could become a destination for free agents again.
However, my concern with all this comes with the Knicks pulling their biggest Winter Mets move yet by hiring a CAA agent to run the franchise. I'm not saying that Rose is going to go Full Brodie and trade away RJ Barrett for Chris Paul's contract and whoever Edwin Diaz is for the Thunder. But I'm also saying it would be completely on brand for shitty orange and blue New York franchises.
In the end, I'm just happy the Knicks reportedly have a team president in place hours before the trade deadline since this is the facelift the Knicks decided to go with instead of trying for a proven commodity like Masai Ujiri, which may have been a pipe dream anyway. Bob Myers and Rob Pelinka both had a decent amount of success going from the agents ranks to front office roles. But neither of them had a kazoo playing fuccboi as owner. But if Dolan actually disappears or (PLEASE GOD) sells the team one day, the Knicks could become the massive free agent destination us idiots have thought they were for years.
Now lets go win a trade deadline, likely with at least one of Rose's old clients like D'Angelo Russell ending up in New York then at 3:01 PM get James Dolan to take the kazoo out of his mouth, make him swallow his pride, and have him apologize to Charles Oakley. Make this new era about a complete fresh start with the players, the fans, and the Basketball Gods