When the games enter Crunch’s time, Jalen Brunson routinely elevates their game.
Now, he is recognized by the leg for it.
He won the Award of the NBA applied player, was announced on Wednesday night.
He hit Anthony Edwards and Nikola Jokic, who were the other two finalists.
Brunson is only the third winner of the award, which was created in 2023.
De’aaron Fox was the first recipient and Steph Curry won it last year.
Brunson scored 156 points on the clutch, which the League defines as the last five minutes of a game when the score differential is five points or less in the regular season, due to NBA.com follow -up statistics, which was the second place in the league behind Edwards.
But Brunson shot 51.5 percent stellar from the field in the clutch, compared to 42.6 percent of Edwards.
Brunson also recorded 28 assists in the clutch, the third in the league.
Do you like to play more in the fourth quarter?
“Whatever necessary to win,” Brunson said. “I really don’t think about it.
However, it has had mixed results in this postseason.
Through the first two games of the series of the first round of the Knicks against the Pistons, which is tied 1-1 in the direction of Detroit, it has four total points in the clutch in just 1 or 3 shots from the field along with an assistance.
