{"id":73164,"date":"2025-08-10T21:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73164\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T21:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:12:18","slug":"jalen-brunsons-father-confesses-his-cheating-streak-to-win-against-knicks-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73164\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson&#8217;s Father Confesses His Cheating Streak to Win Against Knicks Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-1\" class=\"data-event\">The road for Jalen Brunson becoming one of the best point guards in the NBA wasn\u2019t an easy one. It took plenty of tribulations through college and the NBA to reach where he is today. Brunson\u2019s basketball journey began as a child and his first obstacle was none other than his very own father.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-2\" class=\"data-event\">Luckily for Jalen, his father, Rick Brunson, had nine years of NBA experience. The 6-foot-4 point guard was far from a star but possessed enough skill to play for eight teams in his career. Rick learned the game of basketball in the inner city of New York in the 1980s and 90s. As a result, his competitive fire was extremely high.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-3\" class=\"data-event\">After Jalen was born, Rick was ecstatic that his son found a love for basketball. Although he was only a child, Rick ensured he taught Jalen at a young age that there\u2019s no such thing as handouts.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-4\" class=\"data-event\">\u201cI was always trying to teach him a lesson,\u201d Rick <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HMWWFDYv8yM?si=-lLGT_82XXVVLOOt&amp;t=76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-utm_source=\"article\" data-utm_medium=\"content\" data-utm_campaign=\"link\">revealed<\/a> on the\u00a0Roommates Show. \u201cYou guys just play basketball. For me, when I played, you always kept score.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-5\" class=\"data-event\">Of course, the core behind playing basketball for Rick was how fun the sport is. Aside from that, whenever Brunson laced up his sneakers, his main goal was to win. He had to make that message clear to Jalen, even if it required some unethical measures.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-6\" class=\"data-event\">\u201cHe\u2019d be winning, 4 to 2 in a game up to 5. I\u2019m like, \u2018I\u2019m up 3-2.\u2019 He\u2019s like, \u2018Alright.\u2019 He never knew the score,&#8217;\u201d Rick said.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-7\" class=\"data-event\">The two-time All-Star is aware of his father\u2019s antics now, but back then, he didn\u2019t even bat an eye. His father must\u2019ve seemed like an impenetrable Goliath during his youth. The reality is that Brunson may have more victories against his father under his belt than he realizes.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-8\" class=\"data-event\">\u201cHe probably beat me more than what he caught cause he didn\u2019t know the score and I just cheated,\u201d Rick said.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-9\" class=\"data-event\">Eventually, Rick\u2019s reign over Jalen would come to an end, even with his habit of cheating. Once Jalen reached his junior year of high school, his skill set reached a point his father couldn\u2019t read. From that point on, Jalen continued to reach higher and higher.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-10\" class=\"data-event\">The past two seasons, Brunson has earned All-NBA Second Team honors, an accolade his father didn\u2019t have the opportunity to receive. It may have taken years building himself into the player he is today, but Brunson now stands as the face of the New York Knicks\u2019 franchise.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-11\" class=\"data-event\">Certainly, if the two were to go against each other now, it wouldn\u2019t be a competition. But that\u2019s exactly how Rick would want it to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The road for Jalen Brunson becoming one of the best point guards in the NBA wasn\u2019t an easy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-73164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73164","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=73164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}