All the stuff Jalen Brunson can do now

First, let’s zoom out to acknowledge how relatively new and decidedly un-Knicksish this is. Since the turn of the century – really, since the Ernie Grunfeld era – this franchise has seldom chosen developing young talent over chasing big names. You know what would’ve been familiar and comfortably Knicksish? Sending the house out for Bradley Beal or James Harden. Can’t you see the old Knicks putting Lonzo Ball or Victor Oladipo in an Antonio McDyess situation? In another timeline, post-championship Otto Porter Jr. totally gets that Jerome James deal.

You know what else would’ve been Knicksish? Jalen Brunson not entirely trusting this organization’s direction, or James Dolan butting in to say…