Jalen Brunson can be the guard the Knicks have always needed

01.08.2022, 14:49 sbnation.com

Jalen Brunson is the guard New York has been waiting for. The guard position best exemplifies what New York basketball is about. If you succumb to coastal elitist propaganda, as I do, then the Milky Way made New York the place where basketball is most reverberated through. Before capitalism ravished this city’s Black population and took away the best Catholic high school basketball programs (If Harlem’s Rice High School was still around, this piece takes a different tone), every 6’3 and under player wanted to become the next great New York City guard. Guards are dancers and brutes; shooters and slashers; enemies to the opposing coaches and players on the other side. After Kemba Walker became the personification of what work ethic and a deep bag of scoring and ball handling tricks can get you, the output of NBA-talented guards from the city dwindled.