Jalen Brunson leads Knicks as the NBA’s most improbable superstar

NEW YORK — A head-to-toe study of Jalen Brunson inspires a lot of questions, none more obvious than these two:How does he do it?How does a 6-foot-2 guard with a common man’s body and an old man’s game become an NBA superstar?You might recall that the Knicks hired his father, Rick Brunson, as an assistant in 2022 before hiring the former Mavericks guard himself. They tampered to get him, of course, and lost a 2025 second-round pick as punishment.Advertisement