New York Knicks Point Guard Jalen Brunson capped off a benchmark regular season by finding himself on a list with two of the best players in NBA history. Brunson is one of only three players in league history to have scored over 375 points on 60%+ TS in the last 10 games of an NBA Season Wilt Chamberlain in 1963 and Michael Jordan in 1987.
Brunson got his streak started with a 61-point performance against the San Antonio Spurs on March 29. He averaged a career-high 28.7 points this regular season (fourth-best in the league) and was 13th in assists per game this season with 6.7.
Will Jalen Brunson be able to carry his play into the NBA Playoffs and take New York on a deep postseason run?
Only 3 players in NBA History have scored over 375 points on 60%+ TS in the last 10 games of a NBA Season:
• Wilt Chamberlain (1963)
• Michael Jordan (1987)
• Jalen Brunson (2024) pic.twitter.com/Oq1NepvYyU— KnicksMuse (@KnicksMuse) April 15, 2024
Jalen Brunson Career Summary
Brunson was drafted No. 33 overall in the 2018 NBA Draft by the Dallas Mavericks out of Villanova. He spent the first four years of his career in Dallas before signing a four-year $104 million contract with the Knicks during the 2022 NBA Offseason.
The former Villanova Wildcat is a career 16.9 point-per-game scorer.
Jalen Brunson And The New York Knicks Enter NBA Playoffs In Prime Position
For the first time since 2013, the New York Knicks have clinched a top-two seed in the Eastern Conference. Brunson was the driving force behind a great regular season in the “Big Apple.” Brunson and the Knicks went to the Eastern Conference Semifinals for the first time since 2013 last season, but are looking to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2000.
New York will face in the first round the winner of the NBA Play-In game between the seventh and eighth seed. The Miami Heat visit the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday for an opportunity to face the Knicks in a series that begins on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. The Heat defeated in the Knicks in six games last year in the conference semifinals.
Jalen Brunson will have the expectations of a franchise with decades of playoff shortcomings on his shoulders once the NBA Playoffs tipoff. Only time will tell if he will be able to live up to it.
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