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In a letter to her son, Jalen, Sandra Brunson expresses her pride: “I know that as soon as the season starts, you’re going to be focused on bringing Knicks fans another championship. But you’re still my baby boy, so you still have to listen to me. And I’m pulling the Mom Card on this one, and demanding that you let yourself enjoy the moment tonight. This is NOT just another game day…... which is why I’m not just sending you another pregame text.
Today, you get this letter.
Because tonight, you’ll be playing basketball for the first time as an NBA champion.
And I’m so, so, so proud of you.
It’s funny, but I remember when you signed with the Knicks, one of the things that people would say about you is that you were some kind of “nepo baby.” (I told you, Mama Bear kept receipts!) That somehow your dad had gotten you a job with the team. And I always thought that it was ironic in a way. Because the truth is, for all the fond memories I have of the Garden, and of your dad’s time there….. I won’t lie: That was a stressful time. I won’t try to claim we were struggling. We were very fortunate, and had a lot more than most. But being a journeyman, or the family of a journeyman, is not an easy basketball life. You’re living contract to contract … you’re moving around constantly … you’re spending months apart … there are just so many little uncertainties that come with trying to make it on the margins of the league. So when I said that I was ‘nervous’ in the Knicks’ family room back then, I wasn’t joking! We were never anywhere long enough to not feel nervous.
But if there’s a silver lining to life on the margins, it’s that you find out who people really are … because there’s less for them to gain from treating you well. And there were so many people in New York who treated us well. Treated us like family, to be honest. We walked into that family room, and you might as well have been the son of the franchise player! Like, I swear … not once did I have to show a credential when I was there with you. There was genuine kindness for us. And I’ll tell you something about being a mom….. When someone shows kindness to your kid? You never forget it.
So it’s hard for me to even put in words, Jalen, how gratifying it’s been to watch as you’ve come into full bloom over these last few years. And how meaningful it is to me that you’ve done it in that building, with that team, for that city.” playerstribu.ne/Brunson
@jalenbrunson1 | @nyknicks | @NovaMBB
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MSG installed a new display in the concourse celebrating the Knicks 2026 NBA Championship
It features game-used Finals jerseys from the starting 5, the game-used basketball from OG Anunoby’s game-winning tip-in, and more
(📸 MSG Sports/NYPost)
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Hello everyone! This is Sandra Brunson, @jalenbrunson1’s mom. Usually, I send my son a text message before every game.
But tonight he gets his championship ring!
So I wrote him this letter. theplayerstribune.com/sandra…
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Tomorrow... #AlwaysKnicks 🏀
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ICYMI: Sam Cotton of @CortlandFB with maybe the best catch so far this year in college football...an incredible one-handed grab and getting a foot inbounds as the Red Dragons improved to 6-0 Saturday with a win at Alfred! @sportscenter @espnassigndesk #SCTop10 #d3fb #d3playbook
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On Thursday, Alex Golesh's son asked him a question.
Could he come out onto the field after Auburn won.
Tonight Auburn beat Georgia, the number one team in the country, in Athens.
Golesh found his son, pulled him in, and said this.
"We're on the field, bud."
Here is the whole thing.
Auburn was not supposed to be there. Georgia was ranked first in the country and had not lost. The game was tied with three minutes to go. Auburn kicked a field goal at the end and won it 27 to 24.
Then Golesh sat down in front of the cameras and told everybody what his kid had asked him three days earlier.
Not if they won. After we win.
So he went and found him.
"We're on the field, bud."
Then he said this about the job.
"We're going to build Auburn back to where everybody wants it."
Now here is the part that makes it land.
Thirty five years ago Alex Golesh was somebody's seven year old.
His parents took him and his brother out of Moscow with four hundred dollars, a few bags of clothes, and not one word of English between the four of them.
His father had been a telecommunications engineer. In New York he drove a truck.
His mother had been a medical aide. She cleaned houses.
Here is his father on why they left.
"We were scared."
"We didn't know exactly what life would be like. We just knew we had to get to America."
An aunt in New York sponsored them and met them at the airport. They lived in a two bedroom apartment above a bodega in Brooklyn, and Alex learned English at school.
Here is his wife Alexis, who married into the story.
"I'm absolutely astonished every time I hear the story."
Here is what he remembers about America at seven years old.
Bananas. That you could have as many of them as you wanted.
"They were really hard to get. They were like a delicacy almost."
His father never stopped working. He drove for a pizza company, then managed a store, then ran a warehouse. And his mother, who got off that plane unable to say one sentence in English, works for a language translation service now.
Here is the line from him that explains all of it.
"When you're a kid, you don't really know what you don't have."
So that is the whole thing, in one night.
A man carried his seven year old out of Moscow with four hundred dollars and no way to ask anybody for help.
Thirty five years later that kid stood in the middle of a field in Georgia, in front of eighty thousand people who came to watch somebody else, and waved his own son out to stand next to him.
The boy asked on Thursday.
The answer was yes.
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Pat Murphy says becoming a father completely changed the way he coached, and now every player he views and coaches as somebody else’s son
“It’s got to be real, man. You can’t just say it. You’ve got to live it. When it’s about your kid, when you’re raising kids by yourself, you’re clueless, man. You don’t know what you’re doing. I don’t know what I’m doing. I didn’t have that kind of, my parents were way older than me, so I don’t know how to parent. I don’t know what I’m doing, but it’s really important to me.”
“And I started thinking about it like, every kid I coach is somebody’s Kai Joseph. You know what I mean? Every kid I coach, they have parents who love their kid the way I love my kid.”
“Wow, I’ve got to be a little mindful how I treat these guys. I’ve got to be a little mindful about, like, it’s my job.”
“This profession isn’t about the wins and losses. This profession is about, how do I impact this person?
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Here’s a story about how Garrett Wilson, with a small act of kindness, brought some light to a 17-year-old fan who had just recently experienced the loss of her best friend.
On their interaction after the Bears game, and what it meant to a grieving family:
nytimes.com/athletic/7695017…
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A playoff run for the record books 🏀🏆 @nyknicks
'Knicks in 5: The Dream Season’ presented by @HSpecialSurgery premieres Tonight, 7pm on MSG 📡📺
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John Sterling calling the Yankees' 8th-inning rally in G7 of the '03 ALCS will give you chills.
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Brewers radio announcer Jeff Levering paid tribute to the late great Bob Uecker following the final out in the NLCS
“THE BREWERS WIN THE PENNANT! OH MY GOD THE BREWERS WIN THE PENNANT!”
How can you not be romantic about baseball.
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This is an important morning, and an important day.
I'd like to take a moment to thank Pat Murphy and the Milwaukee Brewers for SAVING Major League Baseball.
Since Billy Beane and Moneyball, Analytics Nerds have tried to aggressively take over our game. They never played baseball, and they told us it's okay to strike out, just walk and hit home runs. "We don't care about base hits," they say.
Well... the Brewers just SWEPT the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have a trillion dollar payroll if they didn't do all this Ohtani referral nonsense.
And what do we need to know about these Brewers?
- They were FIRST in MLB in batting average - you need hits to win!!!
- They were 28th in Home Runs!!! One of the worst Home Run hitting teams in all of baseball
I'd also like to thank the Tampa Bay Rays, who are currently battling in the ALCS.
- Rays batters struck out the LEAST of any team this season.
Baseball hasn't changed. If you want to play the right way, you need to have scrappy at bats, you need to have heart and grit, you need to PUT THE BALL IN PLAY (no strikeouts!) and get base hits.
Now watch how the Analytics Nerds will change course.
Last year, nobody was too interested in Luis Arraez (who gets hits).
Watch him get more money this offseason.
All of the trends will change. The Nerds are just learning about baseball, today.
“They may have a bunch of Hall of Famers, but we have a bunch of gamers. And the gamers won this week.”
@Brewers manager Pat Murphy after his team swept the Dodgers
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This is what “feel” is. From a man who spent his entire adult life passionately learning by successes and failures. Seeing things most people don’t see. Learning the nuances of the game. This is what analytics will never capture. Analytics are void of this xitter.cf/todd_rosiak/status/211…



























