This can be arduous to consider, provided that he’s change into the crown prince of New York basketball in nearly each means, nevertheless it wasn’t even like this for Jalen Brunson. Two-plus years into his tenure because the face of the Knicks, we have a tendency to easily consider that trendy Knicks historical past may be divided into two components:
Earlier than Jalen.
And After Jalen.
And in reality, that’s not far off, the place we sit proper now, at the moment. Nonetheless, when Brunson started his time as a Knick, expectations had been curtailed with the 37-45 buzzkill of 2021-22. It felt just like the Leon Rose/Tom Thibodeau partnership had taken a step backward, and although the Brunson signing in July 2022 had been extensively hailed, over these first 25 video games of Brunson’s time as a Knick, no person — not even Rose — knew fairly what Brunson can be.
