{"id":306277,"date":"2026-07-27T04:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306277\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T04:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:49:15","slug":"jalen-brunson-walks-into-club-as-security-checks-nets-michael-porter-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306277\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson Walks Into Club as Security Checks Nets&#8217; Michael Porter Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260726_b47f857869914160ab2c0751ed303bbb\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e3910784-877c-4900-a469-62ccf10c7d1c\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b47f857869914160ab2c0751ed303bbb_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-jalen-brunson-michael-porter-jr-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Club security had two very different questions for New York\u2019s NBA stars Saturday night &#8230; &#8220;Michael who?&#8221; and &#8220;Right this way, Mr. Brunson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video posted Saturday night shows Brooklyn Nets star Michael Porter Jr. towering over the crowd outside the club as security appears to check whether his name is on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Twitter Tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jalen-brunson\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Brunson<\/a>&#8216;s ride pulls up &#8230; and the Knicks captain and reigning NBA Finals MVP steps out and heads straight inside without breaking stride.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In other words &#8230; Net, you on the list? Knick, go right in!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/alix-earle\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alix Earle<\/a> arrives moments later and makes her way inside, too &#8230; while MPJ\u2019s brief guest-list screening makes the New York basketball hierarchy look pretty official.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson did just lead the Knicks to their first NBA title in 53 years &#8230; so these days, his face might be the only reservation he needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Club security had two very different questions for New York\u2019s NBA stars Saturday night &#8230; &#8220;Michael who?&#8221; and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-306277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306277","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=306277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}