Jalen Brunson | New York Knicks Postgame Press Conference | February 1st, 2024

Jalen Brunson | New York Knicks Postgame Press Conference | February 1st, 2024

Want to try again what you couldn’t answer on the court about this all means to come from where you were now um really thankful for my family um my wife my teammates coaches past teammates and coaches all that um really thankful for all of them and then

Um yeah just uh it’s a it’s a great moment how did you how did you find out were you on the court you um I don’t know if I’m allowed to say this morning no but um I I I I purposely tried to stay away from my phone until

Like things were like official and all that stuff but uh uh got on the court saw my dad and they looked at me so I kind of got I kind of knew from that point on so yeah what was your Dad’s reaction uh I don’t know he kept a

Straight face with me but with mom probably now he’s probably really excited so and they C his whole day off with a great comeback win like that how how just nice was everything yeah it was it was a great win you got to give it to

That to that team over there they play fast they play hard they play physical and um coach Carl is going to have those guys ready um and we just we just found a way to make plays and know we kept we kept kept ourselves in Striking Distance um especially when things weren’t going

Away um but uh once we got a little bit of roll we got some stops together and um found a way to win getting hit on the eye through that and then what’s going through your head and um how you kind of translated that to a bucket on the other

End um yeah I got hit uh no call um just went down saw an opening um got I one you did it did it get you in the eye the nose where exactly an eye the eye how how are you doing uh feel fantastic not

Going to lie to you yeah yeah um yeah it is what it is did you think did you I mean you obviously thought you were going to get the calls that while you dropped the ball no comment okay at the end of the game I mean when you were

Being interviewed in the court and and you got emotional was it just the whole evening I mean the way you had won what it was I mean it was really just an unbelievable physical game yeah um for sure it was uh it was really cool the whole

Experience the night uh how we won obviously what happened before the game um you always work for certain moments but you never know how to react once they happen so uh it was it was special did you feel like you know you got an All-Star nod I mean most people thought

You would and then of course you’d want to have a great game after that I mean do you feel that in your head or you just always want to have a great game I mean I’m just going out there to win um I’m just uh whatever it takes to win

What is it about maybe it’s tis maybe it’s just the way you guys operate for the second unit guys to be able to step up and fill in for guys who are out and you guys not to miss just keep giving each other confidence um just keep uh

Making sure that we’re on the same page and uh things like I said things aren’t aren’t always going to go our way but it’s all about how we respond um yeah it’s a Dante it’s a Dante it’s it’s not a goat trust me it’s not a

Goat trust me one out of 10 on the B I just I just let’s just IGN ignore him just ignore him how do you give guys confidence what’s your what’s your way of bringing the best audio te always talking to them um when things aren’t going the way making sure you’re talking

To them um just uh continuously just giving them words of encouragement and um yeah it’s it’s all about that it’s all about just making sure that they they know that they belong they know that they’re here for a reason you look like you’re a little more demra than

Usual you didn’t you look like you’re were a little more demonstrative than usual was was any part of that from just the general emotion of the day and everything that happened um there’s a lot of things going on so I’m just going to keep it at

That do you I mean not I know you’re careful about not saying any is there something you can do to get more calls no comment okay can you don’t when you talk to us it doesn’t seem like you take a lot of time to like soak in moments

With your job have you done that I’ll let you know I’ll let you know but not yet there’s almost never a cheer that loud during warm-ups so when they announce you I mean when you’re trying to focus on I got a game in two minutes

Does that you know sort of rattle you at all like holy cow I got to calm down um I I mean it was really cool it was uh it was pretty special so um I mean yeah I just tried my best to make sure I was ready to go you take a

Lot of pictures of all you going to have that eye fixed in time probably not probably not I just I just did a video from my foundation and from like a month ago and I had my black eye in it so so probably not jayen you you you

Gotten like MVP chance a million times when you’ve been at the free throw line that’s like in a game you’re concentrating on the game when when most of the Arena stays late and is chanting MVP for you in the in your postgame interview like is that is that a more

Overwhelming experience to try to go through um yeah I mean when it’s when when the game’s going like you’re just you’re focused and when it’s over you kind of relax and realize what’s going on so um yeah it’s definitely different at that point so uh really thankful for the fans and what they’ve

What they’ve done for myself my family in this team does it mean anything to you that the coaches that scheme against you voted to have you an st I’m thankful for them thankful for them really thanks guys thanks Joe thanks

Jalen Brunson speaks to the media after Knicks’ 109-105 win over the Indiana Pacers.

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