Before a cocktail hour serving miniature lobster rolls, lamb chops and Jalen Brunson’s favorite hand-rolled sushi, the Knicks’ starting point guard walked down a white, candlelit aisle this past July.
There, underneath cascading flowers, ready to wed Brunson to his high school sweetheart, stood Ryan Arcidiacono, a man ordained in the state of Illinois by some online entity so quick to offer certificates he cannot recall its name. A man who would play 20 games for New York this season, and who led the Villanova Wildcats to their 2016 NCAA championship — two years before Brunson would help bring Jay Wright’s program back to the top of college basketball.