00:00Changing of the guards, Knicks land feisty Alvarado at deadline.
00:04Fan-fave McBride, though, likely done for regular season.
00:08I love the trade.
00:09Welcome home, Jose Alvarado, Brooklyn's finest.
00:13I'm liking this trade because you're going to get max New York effort and energy from one of your very own.
00:20There's a lot of times when you have a guy play for a franchise in the city where he's from, that can backfire.
00:26We've all seen it before. Family, friends, the nightlife, all that can be a distraction, especially here in New York City.
00:33But not for this kid. He's ready to put on for his city.
00:38I don't know how to say it, man. Just seeing my parents, you know, with my jerseys and all the folks that came out to see me, man, it means a lot.
00:44Like, if you would have told me this, it would have happened five years ago, I wouldn't believe it.
00:48But now that it's just like a dream come true. And, you know, it's crazy.
00:52This is, I'm at the Garden, I won, and I'm doing an interview with y'all. And my peoples are right there.
00:57How could, like that, you can't make that up.
01:00And, man, it's just a great win for us. And I'm just so happy, man.
01:03Y'all don't understand how happy I am.
01:05Think about it. Because during that stretch where they lost, what, nine out of 11, what the fans, the media, and even the players identify as what was getting them beat.
01:16It was the defense. This team had to get better. This team had to get more consistent on the defensive side of the basketball for anyone throughout the league to take them serious.
01:26Heck, for them to take themselves serious. Alvarado coming in does just that.
01:32It's going to add defensive intensity, some depth, some ball handling.
01:35And I can't wait to see what Mike Brown cooks up in terms of using him in different rotations, especially at the end of the game when you're trying to close it out.
01:43It wasn't a splash move, and they didn't have to sell their souls to give everything up for Giannis.
01:49But I think it's a small move made that has a chance for some big reward and some solid production, especially with Deuce McBride out.
01:57All that Giannis trade news, I don't want to hear anything about that until the offseason.
02:03This is the unit that's got to bring a chip back to the city.
02:06And they've got a chance to do it with one of their very own.
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