{"id":474693,"date":"2025-12-17T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=474693"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:23:34","slug":"jalen-brunson-this-is-a-step-we-have-a-long-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jalen-brunson-this-is-a-step-we-have-a-long-way-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson: &#8220;This is a step, we have a long way to go&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Jalen Brunson decided to share his NBA Cup MVP award with his New York Knicks teammates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wouldn\u2019t have won anything without them.\u2026We got down 10 or whatever it was and, uh, you know, we found a way to win and that&#8217;s it. Now, we&#8217;re going to find a way and that&#8217;s going to be our model going forward. We&#8217;re going to find a way&#8221;. Brunson said.<\/p>\n<p>The point guard scored 25 points with 8 assists in the final against the Spurs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ytwTimelineItemViewModelContentItems\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" role=\"text\">&#8220;They just told me to be myself. They got the utmost confidence in me, <\/span>the coaching staff, uh the organization, this fan base, all of them collectively. I mean, without them, I wouldn&#8217;t be here. It was one of our goal, a step, but we have a long way to go&#8221;.<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">25 PTS, 4 REB, 8 AST, and a win \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Brunson sits down with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChrisBHaynes<\/a> on The Association: Post Up after being named <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emirates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@emirates<\/a> NBA Cup MVP! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eTFBgL6VLH\">pic.twitter.com\/eTFBgL6VLH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA TV (@NBATV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBATV\/status\/2001161570945007971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jalen Brunson&#039;s TOP PLAYS From The 2025 Emirates NBA Cup \ud83c\udfc6 | 2025-26 Season\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Q5dZ400RHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brunson scored 25 points with 8 assists in the final against the Spurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":474692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-474693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/jalen-brunson-nba-cup.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474693"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=474693"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=474693"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=474693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}