LAS VEGAS \u2014 It\u2019s been the question for a while with Jalen Brunson, the conundrum of his physical limitations and whether, for the first time since Detroit\u2019s Isiah Thomas, a player 6-foot-1 or smaller can be the top superstar on a championship squad.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s presumably a long time remaining in Brunson\u2019s career in New York, a long time to make runs at the franchise\u2019s first NBA championship since Richard M. Nixon was president. The Knicks have doubled- and tripled-down on Brunson at the top of the totem pole, with little expectation they\u2019ll complete a trade for somebody to supplant him like Giannis Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n
But we might answer a different question by Tuesday, albeit less important while nonetheless relevant to this exact moment in Vegas:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 It\u2019s been the question for a while with Jalen Brunson, the conundrum of his physical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,9,11,1104,10,1264,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-70137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-knicks","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-orlando-magic","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70137","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=70137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}