NEW YORK (AP) – Jalen Brunson must make opponents miserable.
The New York Knicks point guard doesn’t beat them with size or speed. He just finds a way to beat them.
Brunson had 41 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, leading the Knicks to a 113-109 victory over the Washington Wizards yesterday.
Brunson scored 18 of the Knicks’ 21 points during a lengthy stretch of the fourth quarter, helping them push a one-point lead to 105-97 with 1:26 remaining. Time and again it would appear the Wizards had blocked his lane to the basket, and Brunson would spin away from trouble to get a shot up or draw a foul.
“It is frustrating and to his credit he’s a hard one to guard,” Wizards coach Wes Unseld Jr said. “Very shifty.”
Brunson finished 14 for 27 from the field and scored at least 30 for the second straight night after missing two games because of a bruised left calf.
