{"id":416868,"date":"2023-01-27T18:48:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=416868"},"modified":"2023-01-27T18:48:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T18:48:40","slug":"top-five-things-you-did-not-know-about-nba-star-jalen-brunson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/top-five-things-you-did-not-know-about-nba-star-jalen-brunson\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Things You Did Not Know About NBA Star Jalen Brunson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Brunson currently plays for the New York Knicks in the NBA. He won two national championships while playing collegiate basketball for Villanova University, where he was named the National Player of the Year as a junior. In addition to setting the USA Basketball single-game assist record for the FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship, Brunson owns the IHSA playoff single-game and IHSA Class 4A championship game scoring marks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YAOiWLczLeI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They chose Jalen Brunson for the Big East All-Freshman Team after the season and won the Big East Conference Preseason Freshman of the Year award for the 2015\u201316 academic year. With the 33rd overall pick on June 21, 2018, the Dallas Mavericks selected Brunson. He inked a contract with the New York Knicks on July 12, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"Five Things You Did Not Know About NBA Star Michael Porter Jr.\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/five-things-you-did-not-know-about-nba-star-michael-porter-jr\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Five Things You Did Not Know About NBA Star Michael Porter Jr.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unknown facts about Jalen Brunson:<\/p>\n<h2>Fan of Steve Nash<\/h2>\n<p>Growing up, Jalen Brunson looked up to former Mavs and Suns point guard Steve Nash. The fact that Brunson wears No. 13 with the Mavericks\u2014former Nash&#8217;s number\u2014is definitely no accident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jalen Brunson (#13) &amp; Steve Nash (#13 &amp; Jalen&#39;s favorite player) vs Utah in the playoffs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MFFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MFFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pmw5cyTiSe\">pic.twitter.com\/Pmw5cyTiSe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Panda Hank (@pandahank41) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pandahank41\/status\/1516914018811715584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;One of my favorite players of all time is Steve Nash, for sure,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/sports\/wp\/2018\/03\/31\/villanova-vs-kansas\/?utm_term=.f97521edf1ec\">Brunson said via the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>2X NCAA Champion<\/h2>\n<p>One of Villanova&#8217;s all-time greats is Jalen Brunson. In both 2016 and 2018, he assisted the Wildcats in winning the national title. The Wildcats won both championships in Texas, Houston, and San Antonio, respectively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy 26th Birthday To Knicks PG Jalen Brunson \ud83c\udf89<\/p>\n<p>*2\u00d7 NCAA champion (2016, 2018)<br \/>*National college player of the year (2018)<br \/>*Consensus first-team All-American (2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4wenN7W8TQ\">pic.twitter.com\/4wenN7W8TQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TimeoutSPORTS__ (@TimeoutSPORTS3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimeoutSPORTS3\/status\/1564954762646265857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Son of NBA star<\/h2>\n<p>His relationship with his father, Rick Brunson, influenced Brunson&#8217;s career path. Throughout his NBA career, Rick Brunson played for the Trail Blazers, Clippers, Knicks, Bulls, Rockets, Celtics, and SuperSonics.<\/p>\n<h2>Threw the first pitch at a Chicago Cubs game<\/h2>\n<p>After Villanova won the 2016 and 2018 championships, Jalen Brunson was given the privilege of throwing out the first pitch at a Chicago Cubs game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let&#39;s go to the tape &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jalenbrunson1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jalenbrunson1<\/a> throwing out 1st pitch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WrigleyBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WrigleyBlog<\/a> !! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zr8bbz80Xq\">pic.twitter.com\/zr8bbz80Xq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jay Wright (@CoachJayWright) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoachJayWright\/status\/777937963816718336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Impressed Mavericks with first interview<\/h2>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsday.dallasnews.com\/dallas-mavericks\/mavericks\/2018\/06\/21\/mavericks-select-villanova-g-jalen-brunsonwith-33rd-pick-nba-draft?_gl=1*o661rk*_ga*MTUwODY4MTIwMC4xNjc0Njc0ODI2*_ga_8T538V93BE*MTY3NDg0NDQ4MC4zLjEuMTY3NDg0NTA1Ny42MC4wLjA.\">Rick Carlisle<\/a>, the Mavericks interviewed Jalen Brunson at the Chicago pre-draft camp for longer than the authorized 30 minutes. 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He won two national championships while playing collegiate basketball for Villanova University, where he was named the National Player of the Year as a junior. In addition to setting the USA Basketball single-game assist record for the FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship, Brunson owns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":409926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[2400],"class_list":["post-416868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-jalen-brunson"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}