NEW YORK — Maybe Jalen Brunson was just bothered by the pain in his left eye that had been hit a few minutes earlier.
Or maybe there were just too many emotions on the night he earned his first All-Star nod.
But after scoring 40 points in the New York Knicks' 109-105 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night, Brunson couldn't get the words out when asked on the court what the night meant to him as "MVP! MVP!" chants rained down from around Madison Square Garden.
"It was really cool, the whole experience, the night, how we won, obviously what happened before the game," Brunson said later.