The New York Knicks made the big move before the 2022-23 season to sign former Dallas Mavericks guard Jalen Brunson. Brunson was coming off a decent regular season in 2021-22 that saw him average 16.3 points, four rebounds, and 4.8 assists per game.
The 2022 playoffs is when the scrappy Villanova guard started to turn heads. He would average 27.8 points per game in the first-round series win over the Utah Jazz. Most notably and the game that you could say changed the course of Brunson's professional career was when he put up 41 points in Game Two to even the series.