Jalen Brunson’s championship offseason has a new stop: the Emmys stage. During Monday night’s primetime Emmy Awards opening number, the Knicks guard and Finals MVP appeared alongside first-time host Mariska Hargitay, steaming his No. 11 jersey while she pressed her dress. It was a very New York bit, and the jokes about pressure practically wrote themselves.
Hargitay, a longtime Knicks superfan, got the biggest laugh with a callback to OG Anunoby’s Game 4 tip-in that sealed the greatest comeback in team and Finals history. Her punchline about not having anyone to tap it in for her landed with the exact crowd that remembers that moment in slow motion.
Brunson’s victory lap keeps expanding. He’s set to appear in an upcoming“Law&Order: SVU”episode, he’s hosting the season premiere of“Saturday Night Live”later this month, and the long-running internet joke about Quinta Brunson being his“cousin”is still waiting for its moment. Which of these Brunson TV appearances are you most excited to watch?
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