{"id":368920,"date":"2025-12-25T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368920\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:47:09","slug":"is-jalen-brunson-playing-on-christmas-day-vs-cavaliers-final-status-for-knicks-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368920\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Jalen Brunson playing on Christmas Day vs. Cavaliers? Final status for Knicks star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Jalen Brunson playing on Christmas Day vs. Cavaliers? Final status for Knicks star<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s slate of NBA Christmas Day games kicks off with a matchup between two Eastern Conference contenders in the New York Knicks<\/a> and Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Knicks enter the matchup sitting second in the standings in the Eastern Conference at 20-9, while the Cavs sit seventh at 17-14 after an underwhelming start to the season.<\/p>\n

Jalen Brunson will play on Christmas Day vs. Cavaliers<\/p>\n

The Christmas stage provides an opportunity for stars to shine, and luckily the Knicks will have their top star available.<\/p>\n

After missing New York\u2019s last game due to right ankle injury management, Jalen Brunson will be available for the Knicks. He\u2019s not listed on the official injury report<\/a>, so that\u2019s a little Christmas gift for Knicks fans.<\/p>\n

Brunson is coming off his best performance of the season. He dropped 47 points and 8 assists against the Miami Heat<\/a> on Dec. 21. On the season he\u2019s averaging 29.1 points, 6.6 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game. He appears to be well on his way to another All-Star selection and he’s a legitimate MVP candidate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The matchup between New York and Cleveland will be the second of the season. The Knicks bested the Cavs 119-111 back in October. They\u2019re also set to play one more time in February.<\/p>\n

More Knicks news:\u00a0Jalen Brunson shuts down ‘foul baiter’ narrative with challenge to defenders<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Jalen Brunson playing on Christmas Day vs. Cavaliers? Final status for Knicks star originally appeared on The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8174,32707,36783,8173,355,181035,2005,361,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-368920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","9":"tag-eastern-conference","10":"tag-jalen-brunson","11":"tag-miami-heat","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-christmas-day-games","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368920","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=368920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}