Seeing him pick his spots on the floor is like watching Ryan Gosling’s character in Drive park an Acura. Still, Brunson should be a solid starter at worst. How effective he can be without Luka is the big question. On the Mavericks, Brunson had the benefit of playing with All-NBA guard Luka Doncic.
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From the moment free agency opened, there were reports that the Knicks were signing the southpaw guard for $104 million. instilled in all kids: Never let them know how much dough you hold. How good can Jalen Brunson be for the Knicks?īrunson and the Knicks broke the rule that The Notorious B.I.G. All aspects of the Knicks mediocrity leads to this inescapable fact: The Knicks haven’t had a good starting guard in many years. The names are laughable in their mediocrity: Chris Duhon, Sergio Rodriguez, Raymond Felton. Since then, the Knicks - outside of a fairytale “Linsanity” stretch - have not had good guards.
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All good things come to an embarrassing end. Years later, he ended up having a testify in a Sexual Harrassment Suit against Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden. Before he tattooed his number on that bald dome of his, became a pariah, and ate vaseline on Ustream (yes, all of these things happened), Starbury could score and dish with the best of them. Stephon Marbury was the last guard we had that mattered. This seems doubly so for the New York Knicks, who are both the stain on the city’s pitch black night skies and our Great Orange and Blue hope. After Kemba Walker became the personification of what work ethic and a deep bag of scoring and ball handling tricks can get you, the output of NBA-talented guards from the city dwindled. Guards are dancers and brutes shooters and slashers enemies to the opposing coaches and players on the other side. Before capitalism ravished this city’s Black population and took away the best Catholic high school basketball programs (If Harlem’s Rice High School was still around, this piece takes a different tone), every 6’3 and under player wanted to become the next great New York City guard. If you succumb to coastal elitist propaganda, as I do, then the Milky Way made New York the place where basketball is most reverberated through.
The guard position best exemplifies what New York basketball is about.
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