Chris Mannix
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Does a championship automatically catapult Jalen Brunson above everybody else that's on that list?
Because without the championship,
Where are we putting Jalen Brunson?
Are we putting him well behind Ewing, I would think?
Is he behind Frazier?
Is he behind DeBuscher?
Is he on that level?
I don't know.
I think that the championship is what's going to springboard Jalen Brunson to that next level.
Yeah, Paul.
I think if he wins the title and wins the MVP, he's clearly the MVP.
He enters the category almost like Joe Namath.
Very good player, but he had that season where he won a title with the Jets.
You're emeritus forever in that city.
Jalen Brunson may not go down as one of the great guards of all time.
He was a slow burn.
He didn't make an all-star team until age 27.
Now he's perennial.
But he may end up being bigger locally than nationally.
And if you win a title in New York...