Jalen Brunson’s trophy room is not robust. Somewhere, hanging around the home, is the game ball from his career-best 60-point performance last season. His parents collect the rest of his awards.
Brunson’s Clutch Player of the Year trophy — an elegant, glass prize that looks like a vase with a gold jump shooter floating in the middle — arrived from the NBA weeks ago with an error: His name wasn’t engraved in it. The New York Knicks had to send the award back to fix the mistake. Brunson has since received the corrected version of it, with “Jalen Brunson” properly etched onto the keepsake.
Of course, it’s unclear if Brunson will keep it. Even in its infancy, it’s already laying around, not displayed prominently at the Brunson household.
It is Brunson’s brand not to care about the awards. And yet, the two-time All-Star can identify one piece of prime memorabilia hanging on the wall at his parents’ place, an item that never actually belonged to him.
“Whenever I’m at the house I see the finals jersey hanging up on the wall,” Brunson said. “And it’s pretty cool to see.”
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