{"id":742918,"date":"2026-06-17T19:33:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742918\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:33:26","slug":"google-joins-jalen-brunson-hype-directing-fans-to-nickname-on-searches-after-knicks-nba-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742918\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Joins Jalen Brunson Hype, Directing Fans to Nickname on Searches After Knicks NBA Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After leading the New York Knicks to a championship and earning NBA Finals MVP honors in the process, star point guard Jalen Brunson&#8217;s heroics were reflected on Google. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">When Brunson&#8217;s name is searched, the nickname &#8220;captain clutch brunson&#8221; appears as a correction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brunson, who previously named Clutch Player of the Year for the 2024-25 season, shined throughout New York&#8217;s latest playoff run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He averaged 28.4 points, 6.1 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game while connecting on 46.5 percent of his field goals and 36.3 percent of his triples in 19 postseason appearances. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brunson also recorded 9.9 points per game in the fourth quarter during the 2026 playoffs, the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/players\/traditional?Period=4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">highest mark<\/a> among all players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">During the Knicks&#8217; 2026 NBA Finals victory over the San Antonio Spurs, he <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/players\/clutch-traditional?PORound=4&amp;dir=A&amp;sort=PTS\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">led all players<\/a> by averaging 4.4 points per game in clutch situations. Spurs star Victor Wembanyama ranked No. 2 at 2.6 points per game in the clutch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brunson particularly shined during Game 5 against San Antonio, scoring 45 points on 14-of-27 shooting as New York closed out the series and ended a 53-year championship drought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After leading the New York Knicks to a championship and earning NBA Finals MVP honors in the process,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-742918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}