PHILADELPHIA – Back in the summertime, Jalen Brunson was visiting his mother in the New Jersey suburbs just across the river from Philadelphia.
They were trying to decide what kind of charitable effort Brunson would support in his adopted home community.
And he didn’t want it to be a token gesture.
“It’s very easy to write a check in his capacity,” said Sandra Brunson, Jalen’s mom.
But the Mavericks’ point guard has reached this successful point in his life largely because he’s never been a fan of taking the easy way out.
That’s what led Brunson, his mother and father, coach Rick Carlisle and teammate Dwight Powell to Covenant House of Pennsylvania in the Germantown district of Philadelphia on Thursday night.