{"id":608862,"date":"2026-02-17T23:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/608862\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:51:36","slug":"jalen-brunson-hopes-knicks-do-right-by-me-in-next-contract-i-feel-like-i-sacrificed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/608862\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson Hopes Knicks &#8216;Do Right by Me&#8217; in Next Contract, &#8216;I Feel Like I Sacrificed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">New York Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson noted that he hoped the team would &#8220;do right&#8221; by him when it&#8217;s time to sign a new contract, per comments made in an interview with <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/story\/jalen-brunson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tom Kludt<\/a> of Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;Obviously we&#8217;d love for them to do right by me,&#8221; Brunson says. &#8220;I think anyone would. I feel like I sacrificed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It&#8217;s hard to argue otherwise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brunson signed a four-year, $156.5 million contract extension in July 2024. That figure was roughly $113.5 million than the five-year, $270 million max extension he could have signed, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/40547744\/knicks-jalen-brunson-accepts-1565m-113m-less-25-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">and him doing so<\/a> kept the Knicks below the second apron and gave the team financial flexibility to improve the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In two years from now, Brunson is eligible for a max extension of five years and $417.8 million deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brunson has injected great life into a Knicks team that&#8217;s searching for its first NBA title since 1973. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Prior to his arrival in 2022, the Knicks were mostly bad aside from a few brief moments of happiness in the first two-plus decades of the 21st century. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">However, New York has made the playoffs three straight years under Brunson&#8217;s leadership, and the team is well on its way to four straight postseason trips thanks to this year&#8217;s 35-20 record, good enough for third in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brunson has been named an All-Star in three straight seasons, and he made All-NBA Second Team each of the past two years. He also won Clutch Player of the Year honors in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This year, Brunson has averaged 27.0 points on 47.0 percent shooting, 6.1 assists and 3.3 rebounds per game. He&#8217;s faring quite well once again for a Knicks team hoping for an NBA title and certainly is (and has made) a great case for New York to reward him handsomely on his next contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brunson and the Knicks begin the post-All-Star portion of the season on Thursday vs. the first-place Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson noted that he hoped the team would &#8220;do right&#8221; by him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":["post-608862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-knicks","tag-basketball","tag-knicks","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkknicks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116088660521050898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}