{"id":71849,"date":"2025-12-16T02:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71849\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T02:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:30:24","slug":"what-jalen-brunson-does-better-than-anyone-key-for-knicks-vs-victor-wembanyama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71849\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jalen Brunson does better than anyone key for Knicks vs. Victor Wembanyama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 Regarding the important physical measurements in basketball \u2014 height and wingspan \u2014 we have a David vs. Goliath showdown in the NBA Cup finale.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Brunson, at only 6-foot-1, hasn\u2019t dunked in a regular-season game since the 2023-24 campaign. Victor Wembanyama, at 7-4, could jam on his tippy toes. No elevation needed.<\/p>\n<p>Wemby is \u201cThe Alien.\u201d Brunson is \u201cThe Sapien.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So how do you beat the better athlete? You play smarter. And luckily, that\u2019s Brunson\u2019s specialty. As Josh Hart points out (mostly because he pokes fun at Brunson\u2019s head size), the point guard has a big brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 Regarding the important physical measurements in basketball \u2014 height and wingspan \u2014 we have a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4777,21,9,11,1104,10,9138,319,431,428,10221],"class_list":{"0":"post-71849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-jalen-brunson","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71849","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=71849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}