the Knicks<\/a>. Off the court, the two host a podcast, Roommates Show, a fairly standard athlete-led gabfest, featuring interviews with teammates, coaches, and other NBA figures. Brunson guesses the call was about a planned double date with their wives.<\/p>\n\u201cYou would think we\u2019d get tired of each other,\u201d Brunson says. \u201cOur wives will be like, \u2018You guys just saw each other.\u2019 And we\u2019re like, \u2018Yeah. And?\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n
On their podcast and in postgame press conferences, they sometimes resemble a buddy-cop duo, with Brunson typically playing the role of exasperated straight man.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m kind of the more unfiltered guy and will just say what I think,\u201d Hart says. \u201cHe\u2019s a little more political.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brunson\u2019s mother, Sandra, puts it a bit differently.<\/p>\n
\u201cJalen and I are alike in the sense that we are very methodical and intentional,\u201d she says. \u201cWe think things through before we react.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is something wholesome about Brunson\u2019s existence, his orbit populated by family and longtime friends. He and Ali\u2014who gave birth to their daughter, Jordyn, in July 2024\u2014were high school sweethearts in greater Chicago. His father, Rick, a former NBA journeyman, is now one of his Knicks coaches, while Sandra serves as chief financial officer of his foundation. Even his professional team is anchored by day ones: His younger sister, Erica, and his best friend since eighth grade, Connor Cashaw, handle his marketing responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou\u2019re a hell of a player,\u201d a man says in passing. Standing at six feet two with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,3499,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-473873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-from-the-magazine","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473873","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=473873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}