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Jose Alvarado is the only native New Yorker on the Knicks' roster. Fans react

NPR | By Samantha Max

Published June 13, 2026 at 6:39 AM CDT

Jose Alvarado, the only Knicks player born in New York City, lived in public housing in South Williamsburg. Fans there speak of him as a legitimate "homegrown star."

Samantha Max

Samantha Max covers criminal justice for WPLN and joins the newroom through the Report for America program. This is her second year with Report for America: She spent her first year in Macon, Ga., covering health and inequity for The Telegraph and macon.com.

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