NEW YORK — In a win-or-go-home scenario at Madison Square Garden, Knicks star point guard Jalen Brunson outplayed Pacers star point guard Tyrese Haliburton to stave off elimination and avoid an embarrassing five-game series loss. It's as simple as that.

Jalen Brunson’s unexpected shoulder massage stole the spotlight during his postgame interview with ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt after the Knicks beat the Pacers in Game 5 Thursday night to extend their Eastern Conference Finals series.

Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns made a record, tying with Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant in 2002 to each score 20 or more.

As I’ve written before, you can make a pretty strong argument that Jalen Brunson, only three years into his Knicks career, is the most universally beloved New York City athlete of the last 25 years. That may be true because of a slight technicality: Though the city has split loyalties in baseball,

INDIANAPOLIS — If you cover Jalen Brunson long enough, you understand that failure is indeed an option. And it’s not because the point guard fails frequently. Rather, to steal another cliché, he’s not afraid to fail. Fear can’t be part of the equation for the player who takes every big shot.

Philadelphia's mayor has honored actor and producer Quinta Brunson with a key to the city in a ceremony dedicating a separate mural at Brunson’s alma mater, which was the inspiration for her award-winning show “Abbott Elementary.

There is no better company to keep in the NBA than Michael Jordan and LeBron James. They are, by almost any estimation, the two greatest players in the history of the sport. They each hold a wide array of NBA records,