NEW YORK — The Donovan Mitchell sweepstakes ended last week, and the Knicks, favorites throughout the process, fell short because Danny Ainge took an offer from the Cavaliers.
There will be another time for an in-depth breakdown of Leon Rose’s offseason, a summer that kept the Knicks in their confusing zone between rebuilding and winning now. The short version is Rose used his lottery pick to clean up his past free agency mistakes and turn them into Jalen Brunson.
He then failed in the Mitchell negotiations, exposing flaws in the larger plan of accumulating assets for a blockbuster trade.
