Austin Young

[Austin Young @AYoungSports]

@TheStrickland Obi: *breathes*
Thibs: JULIUS

[Austin Young @AYoungSports]

@UofBasketball OAKAAK Arron Afflalo

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

US lost but Knicks still Champs. Goodnight!

[Austin Young @AYoungSports]

@BenRitholtzNBA This front office is too good (and more savvy than Mr. Looney) to settle for this as a Mitch replacement. If it's not Drummond/Bagley they have to be trying to find a trade partner. There's also #OAKAAK legend Alex Len 😏

[Teg🚨 @IQfor3]

Thank you Mitch

[Austin Young @AYoungSports]

I am going to throw up!

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

This doesn’t look right.

[Austin Young @AYoungSports]

@BenRitholtzNBA He has played a total of 74 games over the last 3 years and he’ll make $90M for his career after this contract. A good life indeed

[Austin Young @AYoungSports]

@JCMacriNBA

[Austin Young @AYoungSports]

@_deanioannou If anything Memphis fans should be pissed that the edit has Cam wearing 11 and not 12 as if he's not the new face of the franchise

[Sports Illustrated @SInow]

Jalen Brunson was once overlooked, undervalued and called out by pundits.

Everything is different now for the Knicks guard, who gave New York the title it has craved for more than half a century with a sublime Finals performance

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

That Jalen Brunson is even in the conversation to be the Knicks’ greatest player would have been unthinkable when he signed four years ago. At that point, he had proved to be a good complimentary player, but he was not yet a consensus centerpiece. Others questioned why the Knicks were paying such a sizable contract to a second-round draft pick.

Brunson and the Knicks never fully quieted the critics until they ripped through the playoffs this spring. The team was good, the prevailing opinion went for much of the past four seasons, but probably not *championship good.* Brunson faced parallel skepticism: Sure, he had proved to be among the NBA’s best, but could he lead a team that wins four playoff rounds? Brunson and his teammates, however, consistently rallied, turning deficits into leads, and leads into wins, including a stunning 29-point comeback in game four of the NBA Finals.

The Knicks’ championship was a citywide exorcism after more than 50 years of falling short. It was also vindication: for the Knicks, who saw Brunson as a franchise cornerstone when few others did, and for Brunson, who could permanently silence the critics. “This completely changes everyone’s opinion of him going forward,” his wife, Ali Marks Brunson said. “If you’re going to talk about Jalen, you’re going to have to mention that he was a Finals MVP, that he was a champion.”

In Brunson, New York didn’t land a finished product but a player who was still ascending — and, perhaps most crucially, one who wanted to be here. “We did everything we could to bring something back here,” he said. “The character and then everything that this team embodies, it means a lot to me. It means a lot to the city, and obviously having a championship puts the cherry on top.”

For our new Cover Story, Tom Kludt profiles the King of New York: https://t.co/XSshOYMQg7

[Austin Young @AYoungSports]

@MikeAScotto Alex Karaban didn’t win 2 championships at UCONN just to start his NBA career in Sacramento

[Austin Young @AYoungSports]

@KevinOConnor They tried this with Dalen Terry so figured why not try again

[sam 🫥💍🏆 @lbf_mas]

NO SHE WASNT FUCK YOU 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[rio @pilgeousx]

Victor Wembanyama Life Path:

2nd place U17 Championship
2nd place Olympics
2nd place NBA Cup
2nd place NBA Finals

A fucking Loser.

[MC Bets @MCbets__]

“The Savior of the Broken”

Jalen Brunson

[Stefan Bondy @SbondyNBA]

Overheard a security guard at Frost Bank Center:

“They told us in our meeting it’s basically going to be a New York Knicks home game.”

[yzyupdates @yzyupdates]

OG Anunoby game-winner x Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1 😭😭🔥🔥

Absolute cinema

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding