Knicks’ Leon Rose talks Donovan Mitchell in new state media interview

Knicks president Leon Rose continues to hide from independent reporters (and accountability). But he has found time to do another softball interview with another one of James Dolan’s employees.

Rose will have a pre-taped sitdown interview with MSG’s Alan Hahn on the team-owned network Friday night. A preview was released earlier Friday where Hahn asks Rose about the Knicks’ failed pursuit of Donovan Mitchell. Rose mostly offers cliches and trumpets the moves the team did make — signing Jalen Brunson, extending RJ Barrett, re-signing Mitchell Robinson. But he did vaguely explain why Mitchell is in Cleveland now and not back home here.

“We went through that (Mitchell) process there and…