{"id":342805,"date":"2026-09-10T13:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342805\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:07:12","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-knicks-jalen-brunson-to-trade-points-for-punchlines-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342805\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Knicks Jalen Brunson To Trade Points For Punchlines On Snl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Madison Square Garden won\u2019t be the only New York stage to get Jalen Brunson\u2019s attention. The New York Knicks superstar, known for his clutch performances on the basketball court, is about to take on a totally different high-pressure gig\u2014hosting \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A New Jersey native, Brunson will step onto the stage at 30 Rock to host the season opener of SNL on Sept. 26. The Knicks guard is the first member of the team to ever host the show.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Brunson will be joined on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d by girl group Katseye, scheduled to be the musical guest that night. The NBA star will be the first host as SNL begins its 52nd season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison Square Garden won\u2019t be the only New York stage to get Jalen Brunson\u2019s attention. The New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-342805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342805","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=342805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}