{"id":765668,"date":"2026-07-16T05:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765668\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:38:13","slug":"knicks-star-jalen-brunson-wins-two-espy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765668\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks star Jalen Brunson wins two ESPY Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the summer of Jalen Brunson and the Knicks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The superstar Knicks guard took home a trio of ESPY Awards on Wednesday night for Best NBA Player, Best Championship Performance and Best Athlete in Men\u2019s Sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To end the awards spectacle, the Knicks won the Best Team ESPY, beating out eight other squads across the sports spectrum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

OG Anunoby\u2019s flying tip-in<\/a> that capped off the Knicks\u2019 NBA Finals Game 4 comeback also earned Best Play<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brunson was announced the winner of the NBA-focused award earlier Wednesday and earned his second and third honors at the award show at Lincoln Center in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jalen Brunson accepts the Best Championship Performance award onstage during the 2026 ESPY Awards at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on July 15, 2026 in New York City. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Brunson, on hand with his wife, Ali Marks Brunson, accepted his awards on the David H. Koch Theater stage while dressed to the nines in a tuxedo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst and foremost, I want to thank my family for sacrificing everything day in and day out,\u201d Brunson said after winning the championship performance ESPY. \u201cThank you to [owner] Jim Dolan and the Knicks organization, [president] Leon [Rose], the front office, Mike Brown, my teammates \u2014 without them, none of this would be possible. They allow me to be me. I\u2019m forever indebted to them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He beat out United States hockey gold medalists Aerin Frankel and Connor Hellebuyck and Texas softball\u2019s Teagan Kavan for the championship performance ESPY. Argentina soccer legend Lionel Messi, Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani and Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford were up for the men\u2019s athlete award.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jalen Brunson and Ali Marks Brunson. Matt Baron\/BEI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

A group of Knicks, including Anunoby, Karl-Anthony Towns, Mikal Bridges and president Leon Rose, joined Brunson to accept the team award. Knicks superfan Fat Joe fittingly closed down the show with his song \u201cAll the Way Up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brunson won the NBA Finals MVP<\/a>, ending the Knicks\u2019 53-year title drought in a five-game series over the Spurs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He scored over 30 points in four of the five contests, with 36 in the Knicks\u2019 historic Game 4 comeback before dropping 45 in the Game 5 clincher on the road in San Antonio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Making it all the more impressive was that Brunson dealt with pain in his left hand and wrist<\/a>, something that bothered him during the final two rounds of the playoffs, he revealed earlier Wednesday on ESPN Radio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson with the Championship trophy riding on a float. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

The Post previously reported he underwent surgery for the issue July 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI just remember being at the free-throw line in the third or fourth quarter of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals,\u201d Brunson said. \u201cMy wrist was starting to feel weak. I was like, \u2018Where is this coming from?\u2019 From that point on, I was trying to figure out what was going on, and how I can push through, because I wasn\u2019t going to get anything done during that time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the summer of Jalen Brunson and the Knicks.\u00a0 The superstar Knicks guard took home a trio of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[352,14531,36783,265408,355,5489,361,99,1625],"class_list":["post-765668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-espn","tag-espys","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-lincoln-center","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765668","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=765668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}