PostSportsPlus: How the Knicks fans he used to torture learned to love Jalen Brunson
, and he was drafted in the second round by the Mavericks that spring. Nearly five years later, he’s a Knick doing big things, playing so well in the city where he was once an enemy and winning over the hearts of those he once annually crushed.
Yet it didn’t stop coach Tom Thibodeau’s shorthanded team from nearly stealing victory at the end. This isn’t, but it’s intended to illustrate positives in the Knicks’ first loss since Dec. 3. This team has a will and determination that wasn’t there early in the season. A fight is emerging within this group, something that most good teams develop over time.. In so many of those victories, the ball bounced the Knicks’ way. Six of the wins were by double figures. Wednesday was very different.
“He was better when I was younger,” Barrett said of his dad, a former college basketball player at St. John’s who is now the general manager of the Canadian National Team. “He’s still alright. But I can take him now.”
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