{"id":665338,"date":"2026-05-26T04:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/665338\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:07:10","slug":"knicks-jalen-brunson-named-eastern-conference-finals-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/665338\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; Jalen Brunson named Eastern Conference Finals MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2217386\" class=\"wp-image-2217386 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2278219174-scaled-e1779764193701.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1442\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2217386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jalen Brunson leads the Knicks back to the NBA Finals, earning the 2026 Eastern Conference Finals MVP award.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/link.nba.com\/NBAapp_?_gl=1*1e1vc67*_gcl_au*MTYzNjQ3MDQzNC4xNzc5NzU3MDY3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download the NBA App<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was no doubt who was leading the charge for the Knicks in their first run to the NBA Finals in 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Brunson was unanimously named the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/history-conference-finals-mvp-award-winners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Conference Finals Most Valuable Player<\/a> after leading the Knicks to a resounding sweep over the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>New York won 11 straight games on its way to the NBA Finals and Brunson scored 16 points in Monday night\u2019s 130-93 Game 4 clincher.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson averaged 25.5 points and 7.8 assists per game against Cleveland, and he shot 48.7 percent from the floor in leading the Knicks to the sweep.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson is the recipient of the Larry Bird Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the 2026 Eastern Conference Finals. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MsLPgQ5Ljd\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/MsLPgQ5Ljd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2059102545780285840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ballot:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jalen Brunson received all nine votes from a media panel covering the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The voting panel \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JuKA7hkdNy\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JuKA7hkdNy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2059102930377044174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson leads the Knicks back to the NBA Finals, earning the 2026 Eastern Conference Finals MVP award.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[290810,355,99],"class_list":["post-665338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-jalen-brunson-east-mvp","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665338","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=665338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}