• Knicks signing GM Scott Perry to multi-year contract extension

    Knicks signing GM Scott Perry to multi-year contract extension

    The Knicks have agreed to a contract extension with general manager Scott Perry.
  • RJ Barrett’s rise from Knicks draft doubts to budding All-Star

    RJ Barrett’s rise from Knicks draft doubts to budding All-Star

    As Knicks brass debated whether to stay at No. 3 in the 2019 draft and take RJ Barrett or trade down to pick up another asset, Knicks GM Scott Perry stuck to his instincts.
  • Kira Lewis Jr.’s lightning speed capturing Knicks’ attention

    Kira Lewis Jr.’s lightning speed capturing Knicks’ attention

    Alabama point guard Kira Lewis Jr. served as a punt returner early in his high school career. He nearly beat his mother, Natasha, in a foot race at age 5. And his mother was a standout sprinter in
  • Knicks add NBA Draft expert Walt Perrin for key front office spot

    Knicks add NBA Draft expert Walt Perrin for key front office spot

    Knicks president Leon Rose will add a solid personnel man in longtime Utah Jazz scout Walt Perrin, who will become assistant GM/college scouting to Scott Perry. The title was previously held by Gerald Madkins, whose future with the organization is in danger. Madkins’ contract expires in August. For 19 years, Perrin has been a key …
  • Knicks can’t show Mike Miller the same Scott Perry courtesy

    Knicks can’t show Mike Miller the same Scott Perry courtesy

    Leon Rose opted for a slice of status quo earlier this week when he decided to pick up Scott Perry’s option and bring him back for another year as the Knicks’ general manager. It is easy to shake your head and grumble at that, given what “status quo” means around the Knicks right now, and …
  • Scott Perry keeping Knicks GM job under Leon Rose

    Scott Perry keeping Knicks GM job under Leon Rose

    Knicks GM Scott Perry not only will run the upcoming draft but will be back next season, a source confirmed. The source said Perry’s option will be picked up for next season by president Leon Rose. The Post reported last week that Perry, despite the hire of VP of strategy Brock Aller, would run the …
  • Knicks mailbag: Leon Rose regret looms over Kevin Knox decision

    Knicks mailbag: Leon Rose regret looms over Kevin Knox decision

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Knicks. I feel that the Kevin Knox pick might become a bust. He is too slow to guard …
  • David Blatt to be let go in Knicks’ transition to Leon Rose

    David Blatt to be let go in Knicks’ transition to Leon Rose

    European coaching legend David Blatt won’t be retained in new Knicks president Leon Rose’s administration, according to an NBA source. Blatt, who led the Cavaliers to the NBA Finals in 2015, was brought in as a consultant on Dec. 18 by former Knicks president Steve Mills. Blatt and Mills were Princeton teammates in the 1970s. …
  • Leon Rose’s plan for Knicks front office with crucial 2020 NBA Draft coming

    Leon Rose’s plan for Knicks front office with crucial 2020 NBA Draft coming

    Nobody knows the steps Knicks president Leon Rose would have taken had the NBA season — and normal life — not been suspended by the coronavirus on March 11. For now, Rose is proceeding as status quo with an inherited front office in following an unofficial NBA hiring/firing stoppage with the world stopped cold. According …