After Brunson hit clutch shots down the stretch in the Knicks’ Game 1 win in the NBA Finals over the Spurs on Wednesday night, Ball, the NBA point guard, declared Brunson the best Knicks player ever in an X post.
“Late commentary here but Brunson the best Knick to do it… like ever,” Ball wrote.
Jalen Brunson led the way for the Knicks with 30 points in their NBA Finals Game 1 win over the Spurs on June 3, 2026. Jason Szenes for The New York Post
Brunson scored 30 points in New York’s 105-95 win as the Knicks rallied from a 14-point deficit in the third quarter.
With the Knicks trailing 95-94 with 1:50 to go in the fourth, the 29-year-old hit a corner 3 to put New York up by two points and give the team a lead it wouldn’t relinquish.
After signing a four-year deal with New York in 2022, Brunson has turned the Knicks into a perennial playoff contender with his shot-making prowess and crafty finishing.
The former Mavericks guard has averaged over 24 points per game every year in a Knicks uniform, including a career-high 28.7 in 2023-24.
But even after Brunson helped lead the Knicks to their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999, not all fans agree with Ball’s bold statement.
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“Not yet. Clyde and Willis are ahead of him for now, but him and Ewing are debatable,” Knicks fan account @BrunsonIsMVP posted on X Thursday afternoon.
“There is a guy named Walt Frazier who won TWO TITLES for the @nyknicks,” X user @DGUNZ22 also posted.
Some fans think that Brunson can be deemed the best Knick of all time, but they believe he has to win three more games to earn that title.
After his big Game 1, Brunson and New York look to head home up 2-0 in the series.
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) reacts after scoring against the Brooklyn Nets during the first half at the Barclays Center.
The Milwaukee Bucks have reportedly made a decision on their superstar.
Bucks ownership is expected to move on from Giannis Antetokounmpo before the 2026 NBA Draft, according to insider Brett Siegel.
“We have heard from multiple sources, one of which is from a team that was involved in Giannis trade chatter at the trade deadline, that have said the Bucks made up their decision and ownership will be moving on from Giannis Antetokounmpo before the NBA Draft,” Siegel said on the ClutchPoints podcast.
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) reacts after scoring against the Brooklyn Nets during the first half at the Barclays Center. Noah K. Murray-NY Post
Antetokounmpo has spent his entire career with the Bucks after being drafted 15th overall in 2013.
But now it seems like his time in Wisconsin is coming to an end.
Since winning a championship with the team in 2020, the Bucks have been unable to reach the Conference Finals.
This year, they missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016.
Antetokounmpo has just one more year plus a $62.8 million player option for the 2027-28 season.
Rather than lose him for nothing in free agency, the Bucks have reportedly been shopping him around since the trade deadline.
Bucks co-owner Jimmy Haslam may be ready to move on from Giannis Antetokounmpo. AP
Now that the team is seemingly ready to let Antetokounmpo go, one team from the trade deadline sweepstakes has emerged as a favorite to land the two-time NBA MVP.
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo #34 reacts on the court in a game against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
While the Heat remain in front, other teams, such as the Portland Trail Blazers and Boston Celtics, have been rumored to have interest in Antetokounmpo.
The Spurs chose to ride with their $230 million man De’Aaron Fox in the last four minutes of regulation, and he missed an easy jump shot and then bailed out the Knicks with a stupid foul that helped swing the game for New York. Fox ended the night with seven points on 3-of-13 shooting in 38 minutes, while Harper was electric off the bench with 16 points. Right now, Harper feels like the better player even though he’s just 20 years old.
A strange TikTok popped up on Dylan Harper’s page the day after the game. Harper reposted a video with the title “De’Aaron Fox seen honoring playoff James Harden after shooting one of his statline.” The video showed Fox’s 3-for-13 box score line next to Harden’s 3-for-13 line in the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Game 2 loss to the Detroit Pistons in the first round. The video is no longer on Harper’s page, but multiple people confirmed it was indeed there earlier.
The most likely explanation here is that Harper accidentally reposted the video to his page without realizing what he was doing.
Harper played 28 minutes in Game 1. Fox played 38 minutes. If Harper continues to be more effective, head coach Mitch Johnson will have to make a tough decision to sit a veteran for a rookie.
Harden is a famous playoff dropper. I wouldn’t put Fox in that category yet, but he hasn’t been very good during this Spurs run. In his defense, Fox has been playing through an ankle sprain that he suffered in the Western Conference Finals. Harper is also playing through an abductor injury.
I wouldn’t blame Harper is he felt frustrated with his role in Game 1 especially after such a hot start. He can’t air his grievances on social media, even if it was by accident. Chalk this up to a rookie mistake by Harper. He doesn’t make many of them.
Jalen Brunson might not have been the only person who dealt with the vitriol of a Spurs fan.
A man potentially involved in an incident with Brunson late in Wednesday’s Knicks win in NBA Finals Game 1 against the Spurs, allegedly “harassed” one of the viral female Spurs fans during a previous game at Frost Bank Center.
The NBA is investigating the incident, which reportedly involved two fans using profanity and making “flopping” remarks toward Brunson.
But a woman, who goes by @bluebeari3 or Blue, posted a video on X showing a man possibly involved in the Brunson incident insulting her at a previous Spurs game. She alleges he “harassed and assaulted me and my friend.”
New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson has words with a San Antonio Spurs fan at the end of NBA Finals Game 1. Jason Szenes for The New York Post
The incident occurred during Game 6 of the Western Conference finals, according to James B., who identified himself as the manager for Blue and fellow viral fan Julie J. Swan.
In the video she posted, a man is seen leaning over a railing and talking to Blue and another woman with her.
As Blue shifted to bring the man into view, he turned his attention to her and told her that “it’s absolutely disgraceful that you sit like that” and gestured with his finger toward her.
Blue asked the man not to touch her, and then he proceeded to tell her, “Everyone in the stadium agrees.”
“He came up to us at halftime and he was very suddenly in our face and we thought it was like a joke,” Swan told The Post in a phone interview on Thursday. “We thought we were on ‘Punk’d’ or something because he proceeds to tell us that we are disgusting, what we’re doing is disgusting and that the whole stadium hates us. He was just repeating that very, very aggressively, and then Blue starts recording him, and then he grabs her.
This is the same family that LITERALLY harassed and assaulted me and my friend the previous honest game. pic.twitter.com/kLD6UDUeOE
“She tells him ‘don’t touch me,’ and kind of shoves him off a bit,” Swan added. “He backs off a little. It was just very jarring and it happened all at once.”
In subsequent social media posts, Blue alleges the man approached her and her friend and started “calling us names, cursing at us.” She also alleges that he was trying to get her attention, but she ignored him.
“Then he went into a full-on rant,” she wrote on X. “Calling us who++*, sl*is, etc etc. Then actually TOUCHING me.”
Blue also said she had called security, but added that nothing was done.
New York Knicks player Jalen Brunson (11) reacts to a fan during the 2026 NBA Finals. Scott Wachter-Imagn Images
“So this past game security escorted us to our seats because of last time and (from what we we’re told) they were told to stay away from us. The guy literally PUT HIS HANDS ON ME but was STILL allowed to stay at the game even though it’s against the code of conduct,” she wrote in another post.
The Spurs did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Post.
Blue and Swan are the OnlyFans models who have become internet sensations after being spotted behind the Spurs bench during the conference finals.
Blue and Swan were back in their seats on Wednesday for Game 1 of the NBA Finals and once again were seen behind the Spurs bench.
The NBA is investigating a man and one other person as the ones allegedly involved in the Brunson incident, and not a woman whom the internet speculated was a possible offender, according to The Post’s Stefan Bondy.
Brunson seemed ready to move on from the whole thing when he spoke to reporters on Thursday.
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Even as the Golden State Warriors publicly discussed taking a step back from the “championship or bust” mentality that has defined them for the past decade, this team is never actually far from taking a big swing. According to a report by Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints, there is growing momentum toward the Warriors making a legitimate run at signing legendary forward LeBron James this offseason. In fact, Siegel reports that Steph Curry plans to meet with LeBron prior to the start of free agency.
“League sources telling us at ClutchPoints that the Warriors are very much open to pursuing LeBron James and they plan to do so this offseason in free agency,” Siegel said. “LeBron James, at the end of his career, he could still contribute a high level, we saw that in the playoffs. Pairing him with Stephen Curry is going to be something that the Warriors look to pursue over the next few weeks… It seemed very doubtful, it seemed low percentage, now it’s kind of questionable. Now there’s going to be some legs to this… That same source told us that Steph is planning on meeting and talking with LeBron about potentially joining the Warriors over the course of the next few weeks leading up to free agency.”
This is far from the first time the Dubs have tried to bring LeBron to the Bay Area. The Warriors have consistently checked in with the Lakers about LeBron’s potential availability via trade over the past couple seasons, per reports. Two years ago it seemed obvious that James would finish his career with the Lakers, but the league-shattering blockbuster that brought Luke Dončić to Los Angeles significantly changed the dynamic. While LeBron still will likely have the best chance at receiving the most money from the Lakers,
The Warriors clearest path to signing James is with the non-taxpayer mid-level exception (worth roughly $15 million per season), which would still mark a 70% pay cut for LeBron. A sign-and-trade could be a different path to paying James more, but that would require Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green, or Kristaps Porzingis heading out in the deal.
Butler’s exorbitant salary and ACL injury likely makes any deal a non-starter. On paper, Green could fit with the Lakers as they look for a defensive anchor, but his longstanding close relationship with James and their shared agent (Rich Paul) makes that seem less likely. Porzingis seems like the most likely of the three. Sign-and-trades require three-year contracts, but they can include non-guaranteed years.
Given Porzingis’ upside the Lakers may be willing to role the dice on a three-year, $75 million deal with only the first season guaranteed. A deal like that would allow the Warriors to pay LeBron around $30-$35 million next season. Green could also decline his player option and re-sign an extension with a lower salary in 2026-27 to leave the Dubs more space below the first apron to use their mid-level exception for another addition.
Time will tell if the Warriors are a serious contender to sign James or if LeBron is simply using Golden State as leverage to get more guaranteed money from the Lakers. However, the Dubs have few easy options to add premium talent to a roster that is sorely lacking exactly that. Even if the odds are low, a hail mary to land LeBron is worth a shot.
Jalen Brunson #11 speaks with referee Scott Foster during an interaction with a fan in the fourth quarter of Game 1.
SAN ANTONIO — It’s unusual for Jalen Brunson to be so visibly upset.
There was a reason for it. And the league has gotten involved.
The NBA is investigating two fans who allegedly made profane comments toward Brunson, The Post confirmed, at the end of the Knicks’ 105-95 Game 1 win over the Spurs Wednesday night at Frost Bank Arena.
Jalen Brunson speaks with referee Scott Foster during an interaction with a fan in the fourth quarter of Game 1 on June 3, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
As OG Anunoby shot free throws with just 20.6 seconds left in the game, Brunson could be seen talking with fans near the sideline. After the game, Brunson spoke with referee Scott Foster near the sideline and motioned toward the crowd.
He exchanged a few more words with the fans before Jose Alvarado and other Knicks teammates pulled him away.
A day later, he had no interest in revisiting it.
“I’m all good about talking about that,” Brunson said on Thursday when asked if something was said that crossed the line. “All good.”
Video that went viral on social media speculated that a woman sitting courtside was the culprit who Brunson had the exchange with. But that is not who the league believes was involved and is investigating, according to The Post’s Stefan Bondy. They are instead investigating a man and one other person.
“I didn’t even see what happened,” Josh Hart said on Thursday. “I heard something about it. I didn’t really see it. I don’t know. He’s always pretty calm, pretty composed. I’m sure the fans probably said something crazy to kind of get him going. I wish I could answer that a little bit better, but I didn’t see the interaction.”
Not only is President Donald Trump going to the NBA Finals once the games hit New York's Madison Square Garden, he also has opinions on the series — including about Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama.
Speaking Thursday, June 4 to reporters from the Oval Office, the 47th president of the United States was asked about the series between the Knicks and Spurs, after New York escaped Game 1 with a 10-point victory Wednesday, June 3.
“I saw the beginning of the game, and it was not looking good,” Trump said. “I missed the middle because I talk to generals all night long now, but I watched the end of that game and they were dominant, really amazing."
“Wemby is a great player,” Trump continued. “I say: ‘How do you guard this guy?' — 7-foot-5 and he’s got a great shot, right? They find a way to do it. They’re a great team, and I’m happy for Jim (Dolan) because Jim has been fighting really hard to produce such a team.”
Trump confirmed that Knicks owner James Dolan invited him to attend Knicks home games, though he did not provide firm specifics; New York will host the Spurs for Game 3 Monday, June 8 and Game 4 Wednesday, June 10.
“The answer is: yes, he has invited me and I’m going,” Trump said. “Could be Monday — maybe I’ll do both.”
The Knicks will be playing their first home NBA Finals games since 1999, and New York is seeking its first title in 53 years. The games at Madison Square Garden are quickly becoming some of the most expensive tickets in sports history, and the crowd — both inside and outside the arena — is expected to be frenetic.
Trump on going to the NBA Finals: Wemby's a great player. He's going to be a great player and he is already a great player. I’m going. Could be Monday. Maybe I’ll do both. pic.twitter.com/SBeDujD3vt
With Trump also in attendance, security will be bolstered in kind, which could create longer-than-normal waiting times to get into the venue.
“Well, I’ve been a Knick fan for a long time, and I’m also a Jim Dolan fan,” Trump said. “He’s a nice guy, OK? He spent a long time wanting to win, and he’s a competitive guy. He’s got a team that’s amazing.”
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