Knicks Finals MVP Jalen Brunson couldn\u2019t help but make a subtle dig at New York\u2019s high cost of living while celebrating his latest victory in Texas early Sunday.<\/p>\n
In his post-game interview, Brunson, 29, was reminded that his two big college championship victories were both won in Texas, leading one reporter to ask him what he has against the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have nothing against Texas. I love Texas. I miss the Texas taxes,\u201d Brunson joked.<\/p>\n
Jalen Brunson speaks with the media after the Knicks clinched an NBA championship. NBA<\/p>\n
Brunson raises the trophy and celebrates with his teammates after defeating the Michigan Wolverines during the 2018 NCAA Men\u2019s Final Four National Championship game at the Alamodome on April 2, 2018, in San Antonio, Texas. NCAA Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Brunson poses for a portrait after winning Game Five of the 2026 NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Texas famously does not have individual income tax nor corporate income tax, a far cry from New York, which has tax rates between 4% to 10.9%.<\/p>\n
Brunson had played for the Villanova Wildcats during their big 2016 and 2018 NCAA championship victories, with the games played in Houston and San Antonio, respectively.<\/p>\n
He then played for the Dallas Mavericks after the 2018 NBA draft, spending four years in Texas.<\/p>\n
Brunson, who was born in New Jersey and grew up in Illinois, is on a 4-year, $156.5 million contract with the Knicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knicks Finals MVP Jalen Brunson couldn\u2019t help but make a subtle dig at New York\u2019s high cost of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4777,57,37011,9,11,1104,10,9138,319,1777,58,20021],"class_list":["post-266557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-metro","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-us-news","tag-villanova-wildcats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}