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Donovan Mitchell endorses Knicks' hire of Leon Rose

Knicks president Leon Rose watches his team play against the Jazz in the first half at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. Credit: Jim McIsaac

While he has yet to speak and explain why he decided to leave the career he’d built over decades heading up the basketball division of Creative Artists Agency to take on the challenge of rebuilding the Knicks, Leon Rose has gotten a crash course in what is facing him.

In his first three days as the team president of the Knicks, Rose had a courtside seat for one of the team’s most impressive wins of the season and a wire-to-wire loss.