NBA TODAY | Jalen Brunson deserves to be crowned ‘King of New York’- Perk: Knicks are threat in East

NBA TODAY | Jalen Brunson deserves to be crowned ‘King of New York’- Perk: Knicks are threat in East

Today presented by ESPN bet Kendrick Perkins Chen AUM I’m Malika Andrew Zack L’s going to be stopping by in just a minute I should be calling you psychic AUM though oh really you went seven for seven yesterday on your Allstar Reserve predictions and although I mean I think

Jaylen Brunson he should have been a starter that was my pick but it’s okay should have been a starter still surprised he wasn’t it was another big performance for him a little Brunson on Broadway last night where’s your voice Malika on Broadway but a about me this

Is about Jaylen Brunson and the MSG crowd gave him an appropriate reception the Knicks they Trail by as many as 15 in the doing everything he can to get them back in this game in the second look off the dribble coming off of screens hitting him with the oky do I

Say that’s the crossover that shakes the defender look how quick he’s able to go and attack the basket and then slow down the emotion is there what is he doing there oh deception going ahead to the fourth quarter here remember Tyrese halberton still on a minutes restriction

So he couldn’t play late in this game but Brunson said you know what it doesn’t matter who’s on the floor I’m going to tie up this game look at them bully ball big body Bronson right there tomato chest footwork little float in the lane I’m telling you there no other

Guard in the league that plays this type of style of ball with the physicality get stop there today yeah I mean he has post up game he’s got the elbow shots now this is the tough shot that he actually took we were worried for a

Moment he got hit in the face here it looked like he just got clawed a little bit in the eye he went down there wasn’t a all here Brunson we were worried as you said for a minute would he get back up Not only would he he made an impact

Heroics count the basket and one oh and he’s saying it he’s letting everybody know you got to love it though this is literally a movie We’re watching unfold within our eyes the villain NOA Knicks Dante D venzo gives the Knicks a three-point lead here but the Pacers

They weren’t going away easily in this one New York escapes with the win 109 105 we don’t usually see this type of emotion from Brunson just talk about the journey you’ve been on and how it has reached this point now where you’re on the garden floor hearing

MVP chance and you’re going to the all-star game I [Applause] mean I got I got nothing to say I got nothing to say what did you see out of this group where mainly seven guys played but yet fought back from down 15 to win we kept

Fighting man I mean no matter what we’re going to keep fighting that’s what we do don’t keep fighting every single night that’s what we do especially here man this place is unbelievable especially here congratulations gentlemen thank you so much pretty remarkable how many people stayed after with all the things there

Is to do in New York City to cheer on their All-Star Jaylen Brunson who recorded his 19th 30-point game of the season that ties the 1984 85 Bernard King and 6566 dick Barnett for the most 30-point games prior to the all-star break in Nick’s history and you can see

His Stellar Play It’s been a major Catalyst for the Knicks turnaround entering January the Knicks sat at eth in the conference seven games back of the second seated bucks and fast forward to now they are the three seed just a game and a half back of the Milwaukee

Bucks for the second seed in this one as we say hello as promised to our senior writer Zack low Zack this run I mean it feels pretty magical right by the New York Knicks you always thought though they maybe had a puncher’s chance what do you think of them now that you’re seeing

This uh they’ become a more powerful puncher they’re like 80s Mike Tyson right now for a puncher’s chance I said all year we could wake up and see this team in the Eastern Conference Finals and now that they’re in that two3 spot if they can stick in there and avoid

Boston in the second round that could become a reality and let me tell you this once you’re in the Conference Finals anything’s possible like Kevin Garnett w said this team is tough and physical and nasty and they will pound you every single night until you decide

Oh my God we don’t want to play anymore and let me talk for a second about Jaylen Brunson Jaylen Brunson is a superstar jayen brunson’s acquisition changed everything about the New York Knicks it changed the direction of how they built their team they brought in some other sort of young mid-career vets

Like Dante D venzo anobi Josh Hart that fit his timeline because he’s that good you reorient everything you have to do around jayen Brunson when he’s producing like this he should have started the All-Star Game and he’s a New York kind of player crafty old school self-made tough physical this is something magical

That’s happening in New York right now knock on wood it keeps up because this is the most fun thing going in the NBA right now we got you we’re knocking praise God praise God finally finally someone else that’s on my side with this look when you think about the New York

Knicks right and you’re looking at this team you think about the injuries that they’ve been battling through right Mitchell going out Randa going out OG hasn’t played in the last few games right they have depth we saw what precious and hartstein did last night in the interior and then we talk about

Triple B his name a jayen Bronson it’s big body Bronson and what he’s doing right now and I’m glad you put that label on him Zack as a superstar because he could go and compete with any player in any given series and he’s a closer when I think about what’s going on with

The New York Knicks right now y’all remember and you talked about running the race right you know talked about the race earlier in the show great te up great you know all that I think about Jeremy Lyn right and you remember the hype that they had around Jeremy Lyn in

That race it was a Sprint this race right here this not going to stop with the Triple B this is a marathon this is a marathon done the culture is set the leadership is there we saw a play last night when you know a turnover happened

Tibs was ready to get on presses then all of a sudden jayen Bronson went calm TBS down like like that’s what you want and when I talk about here’s the play right here but when I talk about a guy that’s being a game changer and a game

Manager it’s that one right there and that boy Jaylen Bronson and the Knicks they’re Silling is the finals they’re sing is the finals you don’t strap your shoes up and come with the level of physicality against this New York Knicks team you going to find yourself getting

Sent home I’ll even take that further he is a franchise changer oh but I’ve been on the same page as you I don’t know why you keep ignoring me I’ve been saying the same thing about Nick but I’ve been saying it a little quiet I get T of

Vision sometimes you do but it’s okay that’s why we make a good tag team look this is the first Nicks team in a decade that truly embodies the city I mean what do they say they say this is a Big Rich Town what do you have to do there I’m

Talking about power you have to hustle your way to to the top no one embodies that better than Jaylen Brunson right now in the NBA he is 62 but he has that Underdog chip on his shoulder mentality and nothing shows this better than his float game because he is 62 he had 26

Paint point yesterday 26 and if you look at the tape right here how has he been able to do this and be aggressive he has post-ups he’s able to go off of the dribble and watch this this is him handling the pressure he reads it almost a double team step through float game

Since January 17th he’s been 28 for 40 on his floater shooting 70% again right here this is crunch time stepping through beautiful touch right there they have had a nine game win streak and he’s averaging 32 during that right the last time that has happened was what 2013

2014 with Carmello right he is he is a franchise changer and I believe this is one of the best movies we’ve seen of the season so when Jaylen Brunson got to the Knicks in 2022 and he had his introductory press conference right he said that I not here I don’t want to be

A savior right he said that I’m just here to contribute to the team but the fact of the matter is in the last 20 years the New York Knicks have won how many playoff series just one he’s doing the Lord’s work and so it it feels like

He may not want to call himself a savior and I respect that and I appreciate that but it seems like that’s how he is endearing himself to this franchise to the fans and it is so much fun to watch but we were thinking about this in The

Newsroom Zach do you think I mean he’s the first Nicks point guard to be named to the All-Star team since Mark Jackson right that’s the late 80s so when’s the last time we saw point guard play at this level for New York I think you have to go with respect

To Mark Jackson hand down man down you got to go back to Wal Frasier because I know Mark Jackson is top seven or eight in assists all time made an All-Star game he couldn’t score like this and he couldn’t do this stuff carrying a team that is without three starters right now

So I think you have to go all the way back to Clyde Frasier and I want to shout out a couple other guys cuz I’m fired up we talking about jayen Brunson Isaiah Isaiah hardenstein backup center is getting every goddamned offensive rebound that exists and pounding him

Back in Pre Chua perk mentioned him Josh Hart all Josh Hart wants to do is get the ball and like a freight train take it right down your throat elbow you out of the way and lay it in all these dudes are physical and mean and they play in

The Tib spirit it’s not just jayen Brunson he’s the head of the snake but they all fit the same vision it is really fun to watch I know I’m getting fomo I’m like let’s go let’s go back to the Garden I want to be there especially tomorrow night when the Lakers are in

Town uh let’s go from one of the performances of the night though to the the play of the night y’all saw this Jared Allen he just erased this dunk attempt from The Young GG Jackson of the Memphis grizle oh my goodness volleyball SWAT Allan he didn’t finish the game due

To an ankle injury but the Cavs they still managed to win their 12th game out of their last 13 the East the top of the Eastern Conference races it’s definitely heating up Allen though he was not named an Allstar in the Eastern Conference last night but his name it could be in

The mix for a potential injury replacement if either Joel embiid or Julius Randall aren’t able to suit up got to love the Jimmy head shot every single time um other players to be in consideration of course Jimmy Butler in his head shot Trey Young Chris STS porzingis Derek white all right let’s

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NBA TODAY | Jalen Brunson deserves to be crowned ‘King of New York’ – Perk: Knicks are threat in East