{"id":741216,"date":"2026-05-22T17:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/741216\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:12:22","slug":"jalen-brunson-knicks-superfan-mariska-hargitay-share-tender-moment-to-celebrate-game-2-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/741216\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson, Knicks superfan Mariska Hargitay share tender moment to celebrate Game 2 win"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a fourth-quarter takeover, Jalen Brunson showed love to his favorite actress.<\/p>\n

The Knicks\u2019 star, who hit double-figures in points again in the final quarter of the Knicks\u2019 109-93 Game 2 win over the Cavaliers<\/a>, celebrated by running over to Mariska Hargitay, the star of \u201cLaw & Order: SVU.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actress, who plays Captain Olivia Benson, gave Brunson a big hug for his latest heroics, as seen in a video posted by award-winning director and actor Ben Stiller.<\/p>\n

The two became friends in 2024, and viral clips began surfacing of Brunson and Hargitay embracing after games.<\/p>\n

The Knicks\u2019 star even attended the premiere of Hargitay\u2019s HBO documentary \u201cMy Mom Jayne,\u201d while Hargitay sent an All-Star Game congratulatory message<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cJalen, from one captain to another, congratulations on becoming a 2025 NBA All-Star,\u201d Hargitay said. \u201cI cannot wait to see you work your magic in San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, that\u2019s my favorite person ever,\u201d Brunson responded. \u201cThat\u2019s my favorite person ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JalenLaw & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay and Jalen Brunson are good friends. NBA<\/p>\n

Brunson\u2019s love of Hargitay is no secret of everyone else on Celebrity Row.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe love that Mariska Hargitay gets from you postgame is the envy of every other Knicks fan, Knicks celebrity fan. She gets a hug after a loss,\u201d Stiller told Brunson on his \u201cRoommates\u201d podcast last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brunson was also seen with multiple other \u201cLaw & Order\u201d stars on different occasions, including Christopher Meloni,<\/a> who sat next to Hargitay in a clip that went viral last year as Brunson hugged her.<\/p>\n

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Also in the photo was Hargitay\u2019s son, August, whom she had with her longtime husband, Peter Hermann, with the two tying the knot in 2004.<\/p>\n

The stars love Brunson, as he\u2019s been seen hugging the likes of Francisco Lindor, Jimmy Fallon and many more before and after games.<\/p>\n

There will be many more flocking to him, too, as the Knicks are up 2-0 in the Eastern Conference finals in this dominating run.<\/p>\n

\"AJalen Brunson embraces with the Law & Order: SVU star. <\/p>\n

After going down 2-1 to the Hawks in the first round, the Knicks have won nine straight playoff games.<\/p>\n

The Knicks have opened Game 3 as 2.5-point underdogs with the series shifting to Cleveland, as oddsmakers suspect a big boost from the Cavaliers\u2019 home crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a fourth-quarter takeover, Jalen Brunson showed love to his favorite actress. The Knicks\u2019 star, who hit double-figures…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,288,21463,5743,6,11,56381,191,66,2086],"class_list":["post-741216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-law-and-order-svu","tag-mariska-hargitay","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116619349043543447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741216","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=741216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}