Jalen Brunson has been everything the New York Knicks could've wanted.
Further metropolitan praise for Jalen Brunson seems cliched, forced, over done. But the New York Knicks are completely fine with that: they're trying to win a Larry O'Brien Trophy, not an Oscar..
Credit Brunson instead for how so many things could've gone wrong ever since he signed a four-year, $104 deal with the Knicks during the fateful summer of 2022. From the get-go, it easy to draw horrifying comparisons: a flash-in-the-pan breakout postseason star? Jerome James! A talented point guard paid bucks to solve the long-standing woes at basketball's quarterback? Kemba Walker!
Perhaps no one would say it aloud, but Brunson could be charitably described as a placeholder, a stopgap, someone to hold Knicks fans over until an established star made his way to Manhattan. Between hoping to land, say, Donovan Mitchell, Kevin Durant, or even the final years of LeBron James' reign, the Knicks were a superhero movie that cast the sidekick before the star.
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