Fresh off helping the New York Knicks win their first NBA title since 1973, Jalen Brunson has been interviewed by everyone. Including the youth.
Brunson appeared as a guest on Kids Sports Reporters and was asked who is the most famous person in his phone, to which he hilariously replied by taking a jab at Luka Dončić.
“I don’t know, some basketball player, right?” Brunson said, and then went on to sarcastically joke about Dončić and said, “I would say Luka probably. I’m not a fan of Luka. He’s probably one of the worst teammates I’ve ever had.”
Brunson and the two reporters interviewing him went on to take more shots at Dončić until one of them caught Brunson off guard when he said Dončić doesn’t play defense, which caught Brunson off guard and he abruptly responded saying “Wow!”
After the jab, Brunson was quick to defend his former Dallas Mavericks teammate by saying, “He plays defense. He plays a little defense, he tries.”
Before Brunson arrived with the Knicks in 2022, he was drafted by the Mavericks, alongside Dončić in the 2018 NBA Draft.
The two developed a long-lasting friendship that still exists to this day.
Before Team USA took on Slovenia in a warm-up game during the 2023 FIBA World Cup, Brunson praised Dončić and called him his brother.
During the NBA Finals, Dončić revealed in an interview with the Spanish YouTube channel Drafteados that he texted Brunson, “Just one more,” as the Knicks were one game away from winning the NBA Finals.
When New York pulled off the 94-90 Game 5 victory over the Spurs, Brunson said Dončić reached out to him again and congratulated him on the championship.
