If you think it\u2019s been too long since the last edition of the Bulletin, you\u2019re not wrong.<\/p>\n
If you can\u2019t wait for the start of the season \u2014 hell, the preseason or even training camp or, yikes, media day \u2014 well, you\u2019re like me and we\u2019re almost there!<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s what a couple Knickerbockers have publicly said of late.<\/p>\n
Jalen Brunson<\/p>\n
On team chemistry and continued improvement:
\u201cI think we\u2019ve been taking steady steps every year. The best part about our team is the chemistry we\u2019ve grown and we\u2019ve created. A lot of people help us on this journey, and to be able to be where we are now, it\u2019s nothing to be satisfied about. Hopefully we don\u2019t have that mindset going into the season where we think we\u2019re just going to jump back into the Eastern Conference Finals. We need to be able to go through this process again and continue to get better and the fight to get over that hump.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On the importance of team unity after roster changes:
\u201cIt\u2019s going to take all of us. It\u2019s not going to take just one change or another small thing. It\u2019s going to take all of us together to kind of put everything aside and pull together.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Karl-Anthony Towns\u2019 impact on the Knicks:
\u201cHe\u2019s been phenomenal for us, in the locker room has been great. On the court, he\u2019s been great. The things that he\u2019s been able to do in a short period of time being a Knick has been amazing. Having him as a teammate has been really fun. I think that gets overlooked how good of a teammate he is. Obviously, he\u2019s a great player and what he does on the court. But the teammate he is and what he brings to the locker room for us is special. So I\u2019m really happy to have him.\u201d<\/p>\n
On why Karl-Anthony Towns is a unique player:
\u201cDon\u2019t think you can compare him. He shoots the ball so effortlessly, and he can make plays. He has great touch around the rim, so he\u2019s pretty much his own person. He picks different games of styles of basketball, and kind of makes it into his own.\u201d<\/p>\n
On learning from playoff experience:
\u201cI think our process and everything we\u2019ve been doing going forward has been great for us. It\u2019s been a great test, having learned. Everyone says, \u2018Oh, you need to get experience.\u2019 Well, this is us getting experience. This is literally us going through the trials and tribulations of being a good team. So continue to do that and just find a way to see what can we do to get over that hump.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On personal goals vs. team success:
\u201cAll my personal goals are team-based. If everyone\u2019s able to feed off that, that\u2019s all I\u2019m worried about. I\u2019m not really worried about anything that benefits me solely if it doesn\u2019t help us to get where we\u2019re going.\u201d<\/p>\n
On not being a big NBA 2K fan:
\u201cI\u2019m not a big video game player and I\u2019m not a big 2K player. I\u2019m very thankful for my rating, obviously. I\u2019m in the 90\u2019s. I think in my first year in 2K I was made right-handed. I haven\u2019t played 2K after that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deuce McBride<\/p>\n
On what excites him about Mike Brown\u2019s new system:
\u201cI\u2019ve talked to [Brown] a lot, and I think the big thing is just going to be a lot of player movement. He\u2019s giving us the foundation, and we\u2019re just going to work off of it. So I\u2019m really excited to see all our creativity with each other that we\u2019ve been working on these last couple months. Really excited to see where it takes us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On becoming a father and author at the same time:
\u201cIt was a crazy thing to put out a children\u2019s book and then have my daughter be born really at the same time, lining up. But it means so much more, just the fact that she\u2019s going to grow up with a dad who was able to do something like this. And hopefully have more books coming after this.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Kobe Bryant\u2019s post-retirement impact:
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of interesting because I really wasn\u2019t a Kobe fan growing up. And then after he retired and started leaving a legacy off the court of giving back to the game, that\u2019s when I really became more of a fan of his. Since I was younger, I always wanted to grow up and be a role model for younger kids. And I felt like doing a children\u2019s book would be a good start in leaving a good legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the reception of his book:
\u201cWe\u2019ve had some people order pretty large amounts of the book, people at the public readings for their classrooms and for their schools. So it\u2019s been pretty well received.\u201d<\/p>\n
On planning his next book project:
\u201cI\u2019ve started thinking about the next book and excited to see where the journey takes me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you think it\u2019s been too long since the last edition of the Bulletin, you\u2019re not wrong. If…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[36783,36782,25169,7566,355,99],"class_list":["post-163650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-knicks","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}