
Jalen Brunson delivers blunt response to Isaiah Hartenstein’s Knicks-Trae Young dig
NY Post
Isaiah Hartenstein claims he wouldn’t have allowed Trae Young to celebrate all over the Knicks logo at the Garden in the Hawks’ NBA cup quarterfinal win Wednesday.
Jalen Brunson’s response: We’ll never know.
“Isaiah isn’t here,” the Knicks’ captain said Saturday after practice.
A Knicks’ villain dating back to the 2021 playoffs, Young stopped at the Knicks logo and picked up and rolled fake dice as if he were playing craps in Las Vegas in the final seconds of the Hawks’ win.
Hartenstein, who spent the last two seasons with the Knicks before signing with the Thunder this offseason, told reporters that if he was still a Knick, “I wouldn’t have let him roll the dice on midcourt. I would’ve done something. I’ve always got love for New York.”
Brunson reiterated that the Knicks’ biggest mistake was letting the Hawks win the game, not allowing Young to celebrate.

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