Jalen Brunson Tonight: 45 PTs | Rest of Team: 49 PTs
It’s the highest percentage of a team’s points in a Finals game (47.9%) since MJ in game 6 in 1998
Could’ve sworn this was similar to Giannis in game 6 of the finals
It honestly felt that way to me. There was nothing stopping Jalen Brunson from bringing that team over the finish line tonight
Didn’t wanna play cute and finish it at home. Just stomp on the neck when you have the chance lmao.
Was this not a home game?
Couldn’t care less about the team but I actually felt for the Spurs fans in these finals. Tickets at the garden were so expensive that it was cheaper for knicks fans to get accomodation for the week and go to both spurs games. That’s why there was so many knicks fans there for 1 & 2. Around a third of the crowd for game 5 was knicks fans as well.
Close, 50 points out of 105 so 47.6%
47.6%? pfft. bum.
Him going to chick fil a the next morning and ordering a 60 piece lives in my head rent free
Large unsweet tea no ice too, iconic
I thought it was half Sprite, half lemonade?
It was
Been drinking that when I go out ever since
“Not 40, not 50, i need SIXTY”
It was 50, not 60. Still a lot of nuggets though!
Oh my god it was. Mandela Effect boomed me.
Him asking the drive through girl if he could stream her, then telling her there’s 150,000 people watching.
I said to myself while watching that this looks like Jalen is going to MJ this shit ala-1998:
Nobody else in the team gets going offensively, he carries the offense, the rest of the team does the small things like defense and rebounding, team chips in a bit, but eventually star player clutches the win for them offensively.
Agreed. That late Mitch offensive rebound off the missed free throw was huge.
What a rebound that was.
Steph’s 47 on G3 of the 2019 finals should be as impressive. That was 44% of their score when he is literally being box and 1’d and the Raptors are leaving his teammates wide open lol. Imagine getting triple teamed while your teammates cant even fking score and still dropping almost half of your total. Insane.
Holy shit
MVP
Truly one of the biggest carry jobs we’ve ever seen
He said no one else getting that Finals MVP and no need to play another game in New York. Straight up shut everyone up.
He really got us out the mud through sheer will. I thought we were going to game 6 after KAT got 4 fouls but he brought it home for us
He’s also going to reverse the perception that you can’t win when your best player is a small guard. Dude is incredible.
idk if he’ll change the perception, moreso just reinforce how good you have to be to overcome the height difference
The Warriors proved that with Steph. Brunson is proving it again.
Tbf Steph is transcendant level, it still felt true outside of having that small guard be the greatest shooter in the history of the sport. Brunson - as incredible as he is - is not that, so it feels more “normal.”
I feel like if anything this series proved that your best player has to be someone who can create for himself/initiate the offense. Wemby isn’t there consistently yet. Which forced the pressure of creation on young guys and a former King.
Fox is supposed to be a high level shotmaker though. Not at the same level as Brunson obviously but he’s only 28 and won clutch player of the year not too long ago. It’s a shame he’s declined like this. Not even sure if he’s better than CJ McCollum anymore
Brunson beat both the Spurs and a legendary game from Scott Foster today. All time performance
I feel like Brunson really overshadowed foster tonight and the series win means foster isn’t getting the props he deserves for his performance. Do you know how hard he had to work to do what he did tonight? All ya’ll doubted it could get worse than games 3 & 4 but he proved once again why he is the true OG.
If the refs weren’t absolute trash, Wemby would’ve been suspended before the series ended and Brunson would prob have 15 more free throws across the series. But Brunson is so good he won anyway.
He is the mud.
It is what it is you can’t mold mud into what you want it to be it molds itself,you can’t break it down.
What?
You heard him
Ay idk either. It’ll probably make more sense when I sober up in the morning
Haha, I doubt it but congratz and enjoy! 😃
Idk De’Aaron Fox could have easily won the MVP as well.
Giannis level closeout game
It’s literally MJ level
When you want to win, you make it happen.
Very dirk like
The statue is going up as we speak
Honestly they should just re-do the Statue of Liberty and make it a giant Brunson
and you could say this time it was also gifted by the French
That was a nasty line by you
You deserve everything and more for this comment.
Easy. OG is good but Brunson is the reason the Knicks are where they are. Just a machine.
If you’d have told me mid-May that OG even had a shot I would’ve called you insane lol
The best kind of hero ball, he had to do it tonight cos no one else wanted to score.
Nobody on the Knicks wanted to shoot besides Brunson and OG who didn’t have it tonight. It felt like every Knick was swinging the ball around refusing to shoot it. If Mikal didn’t wake up in the second half they easily lose that game.
People say “hero ball” like it’s a bad thing, but Jalen Brunson is literally my hero, so how else is he gonna play?
No fucking doubt
This guy is simply amazing
Heart of a lion.
He staked his claim this Game.
After all the haters tried to give to anybody BUT him, he ended up being the only one to show up to work(on offense) lol
BIG BODY BRUNSON
I can’t believe Mavs let him go. And Luka. Lol
Mavs had both brunson and luka and somehow ended up with neither lmfao
They got Anthony Davis though
And he’s gone too
Hey but now they have the 30th overall pick this year and Kings legend Marvin Bagley!
If they didn’t have Flagg right now it’d be the most calamitous cratering of a franchise of all time.
he’s gone too man
anddddddd he’s gone
No we don’t
brunson wouldn’t be able to do this playing next to luka lol
I disagree, replace Kyrie with Brunson in that Mavs 2024 run and they at least produce the same result if not winning it all.
Yeah they probably win it all. He wanted to be a Mav too. Mavs fans gotta be sick 😭
Yep
Not to mention, Brunson (if he stayed) would have been on a super cheap contract and they don’t have to spend draft picks on Kyrie and could’ve used it elsewhere.
He’s for sure performing better than what Kyrie did against Boston.
Legit, I think that solves the biggest problem for the Mavs in the series in that nobody aside from Luka was getting anything going on offense, and even he was growing worse as the series goes on.
I actually disagree.
Im tired of all these casual fans take, I said brunson was a superstar back then and got dowvotes. You guys can keep talking the same shit every year
Same! I saw something special in him from the start and was always surprised by the hate. I’m not shocked at all he performed this well, his ability was always obvious to anyone paying attention.
You are a smart fan, you werent wrong to think that at all. Brunson averaged 27 ppg on high efficency against playoff defense and was a 3 level scorer against the playoff jazz team. and a 3 level scorer alll playoffs and in general for years. Then he took a step back to accommodate the even more talented luka. Ppl act like two superstars cant be on the same team, shit gets annoying.
He was great support. He proved that in the post season when they went to the WCFs
Yup. It’s been repeatedly said that Brunson, and the team in general, all understood that they had roles to fill. When the offense shifted to go through Kat, he didn’t complain. He definitely woulda fit in with Luka.
Would he be this good? No. But he would be pretty damn close.
Fans really thought he wasnt a superstar in 2022 after he averaged 27 ppg on high fg against playoff defense 1st round , fans and talking heads will be fans and talking heads. They downvoted me for saying he was a superstar and underpaid the min he signed with the knicks.
If lakers somehow win next year, Dallas fans may need to go on life support
I get it.. but why’d you have to say somehow tho 😂😭
Hey man I’m a Lebron fan, since 2020 I share the disappointment
Really? Nico was the gm, I can totally believe it lol
Dude was fucking Michael Jordan out there
I’ve never seen anyone more clutch its unreal WE PARTYING TONIGHT MY BOY
I’d say Haliburton was doing it last year, all playoffs, the Pacers didn’t win 13 in a row, they needed multiple walkoff game winners to even get to Finals Game 7.
Tyrese Haliburton scored 5.2 points per game in the 4th quarter in the playoffs last year. He was scoreless in the 4th in his last two fourth quarters (ignoring game 7).
Jalen Brunson averaged 10.2 points per game in the 4th quarter in the playoffs this year. He scored 13 and 15 in the 4th quarters of the two games to close out the championship.
It’s not comparable, at all.
Only Shaq in 2000 averaged more 4th quarter points (11.5 PPG) in the Finals than Jalen Brunson (11.2 PPG) just did. Jordan’s best mark was 9.8 PPG in the 4th in the ‘98 Finals.
Way to shut that shit down.
I don’t care if we just won a chip, being petty towards and hating on the Pacers is in our blood
THIS GUY DOING GYMNASTICS HALIBUM COULD NEVER AND WILL NEVER
Did MJ consent?
No he pushed off
Brunson’s push-off today was in honor of MJ
Brunson’s percentage of the total team score in this game is the highest of any Finals player since MJ in 1998. He really is just that good.
He was doing what to Michael Jordan?
Absolutely iconic run. Will be talked about in 20 years
Will be talked about in 50 years. The blitz through the East, the record breaking scoring, the Hand of OG, and the Brunson masterpiece.
And KAT’s absolutely beautiful Games 1&2
Honestly those will probably be forgotten about even though they shouldn’t be. I thought he was the favorite for finals MVP after game 2.
He definitely was. Recency bias always ends up being the deciding factor for FMVP. Brunson was shooting like 35% from the field in their first 2 wins.
*39%, and that’s with all the double teams and gameplans against him
But it doesn’t matter, Brunson is like 50% FG in games 4-5 anyway
Despite the poor efficiency I don’t think Brunson was bad those games. The only game that I wasn’t a fan of brunson was 3, looked like Knicks really fell into old habits.
great run for KAT the whole season, shame for his foul trouble to take him out of this game and the other one
Largest playoff point differential of all time, and by a wide margin. Like an extra 50 points over the crazy Warriors run.
It helps that atlanta philly and cleveland all let go of the rope pretty easily
That’s up 2-1 Atlanta to you bud. Put some respect on our name.
The champ’s toughest opponent, good shit Hawks.
Will be talked about in a thousand years. When the world is a nuclear wasteland, the Cult of Brunson will be anxiously awaiting his return.
He is a Knick god. Eternal.
Brunson will be talked about for as long as the Knicks exist. His legacy is set in stone
Bros such a winner. Cant help but love that relentless determination from the big head GOAT
Bro got me hyped and I ain’t even from NY what a performance
Doubted every step of the way too. Too short, not athletic enough… cant think of anyone else more deserving
Nobody else did anything offensively besides a little bit of Bridges. The one guy who showed up to score tonight and clinch a championship.
Mitchell Robinson had some very clutch offensive boards but yeah Brunson hard-carried
Mitch off the Hart miss and then getting rid of it quickly was so huge (even if OG then did still miss one.)
It was massive. Without that we don’t foul Harper and who knows what happens.
I thought fouling him when you did was a mistake (looking away from the basket, no time taken off), but I hate the foul up three strategy in general and it all worked out when he missed both anyway.
I don’t think this was the thought process and maybe it’s playing the result, but putting all the pressure in the world on the rookie to make free throws might have been the optimal play.
Team effort to be in this position but yes Jalen rules tonight
The rest of the team did phenomenally the rest of the run, but tonight was basically just the Jalen Brunson show for the Knicks.
Hart with a ton of rebounds tonight
Fitting that in the championship clincher, the clear top 3 were the Nova Knicks.
He absolutely carried tonight. King of New York.
Saw all the OG for fMVP talks and locked in lol
Brunson had to sit up in his gaming chair for Game 5
I thought OG had a case for it, but yeah this game totally changes that. One of the hardest carries in a finals game that I have ever seen.
Og the lebron of wigginses
33rd overall pick btw
The past six Finals MVPs: 33rd, 11th, 3rd, 41st, 7th, 15th.
This needs to be its own post!! Wow!
Le upvote!
Jalen Brunson (2026), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2025), Jaylen Brown (2024), Nikola Jokić (2023), Stephen Curry (2022), and Giannis Antetokounmpo (2021).
And yet you’ll hear times and times again people crying about the lottery
Only way to win the NBA is to tank btw
NY about to turn into Gotham city
Riots are 1000% ensuing
Was gonna happen no matter what the result was l
what do you think new york needs to grease so that the citizens don’t climb it?
Ur mom
Ngl would love to be in the city to see and hear it.
Businesses board em up
I was an “OG is FMVP” guy but holy fuck he stepped up to the moment man actually a legendary game from him
Yeah OG had a slight edge for me before this game, but it’s no longer a contest after this game. One of the hardest carries I have seen in a finals games ever.
tbf to OG and KAT they got in foul trouble which iced them out, OG had some good defensive plays this game as well. But Brunson is no doubt the best player and finals mvp, even before this game I think it was clear bc of the gravity he has
KAT had yet another game ruined by foul trouble yes, but OG didn’t really get into foul trouble until late. He just didn’t have it this game.
There are so many white dudes on Long Island who say they’re Italian even though their family has been here for 120 years who are ecstatic right now.
r/oddlyspecific
It’s not. 90% of LI is like that.
Lifelong Long Islander and might be the most accurate thing I’ve ever read. Made me actually laugh.
You haven’t been to Long Island then lol
They’re crying real tears of joy lmao. The same tears they cried when their children were born.
Gabagool
Gabagool? Over here
Can confirm. Neighbors behind me are blasting Sinatra singing along loudly to New York New York.
I love hearing stories about these people going to Italy and the locals absolutely despising them lol
felt this in my soul (from LI)
Absolutely legendary performance
Against an equal legendary performance by Scott The Extender Foster. Makes this 45 even crazier.
Absolutely mental as the Brits would say
Everyone is better than Jalen Brunson until its time to be better than Jalen Brunson
Becky Hammon deadass might never be able to step outside again bro
I was just saying to someone, I 1000% get where she was coming from with that statement, but tonight as a Knicks fan fuck becky hammon all my homies hate Becky hammon
Best Knick ever
They’re gonna build a statue of him outside the MSG.
Walt Frazier
Jalen Brunson
So glad we get to have this debate including a Knicks player from the 21st century
He’s getting that fmvp
king of new york
Becky Hammon TAKE COVER!!!!!!
THE LEGEND
Villanova man good
Carry job
What an absolute legend
becky bout to catch a crazy blitz tonight
The name Jalen is about to reApex. We’re about to get white Jalens, Dominican Jalens, Jewish Jalens.
Up there with Walt Frazier’s 36/19/7/5 and Giannis’s 50 piece in closeout finals games
Becky Hamon must have turned off her notifications
KING OF NEW YORK
Easiest FMVP ever
I wanted it bad for OG but the dudes undeniable
THATS MY CAPTAIN THATS MY MVP!!!!
He shows up when it matters most every game. Such an impressive performance and it will be a well deserved finals mvp.
What a dawg
Guys I think he might be a 1A
THANK YOU DALLAS FOR BEING A DUMBASS ORGANIZATION
Him single-handedly going on 10-0 run to tie the game is the most awe inspiring shit I’ve ever seen.
MVP!!!
Yeah he’s finals mvp lmao.
Brunson just silenced all the “he too small” narratives. Man put on the cape and mask and carried this team to victory. LFG!!!!!!!
Jalen Brunson is a champ and Finals MVP before Luka
Smoking on that spurs pack in the city tonight
Hard carry. Actually insane how clutch this guy is
Made a huge fan out of me. Such a dog
Coming back from two injuries game one to the CARRY OF A LIFETIME. CONGRATS Knicks fan your boy is a fucking DAWG