From NYCHA to the Garden, the Knicks' Jose Alvarado is living a New Yorker's dream ^41.4%

Gothamist - By Ben Feuerherd, Samantha Max - 6/10/2026, 10:01 AM

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On a small basketball court in bustling South Williamsburg, Malik Kaiser Covington Jr. is running point guard as he and friends from a local high school play half-court on a recent sunny afternoon. The New York Knicks are in the NBA Finals for the first time in more than two decades, and 17-year-old Kaiser Covington and his friends are... more