{"id":762544,"date":"2026-06-16T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/762544\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:30:21","slug":"mike-browns-cringey-fallon-moment-leaves-jalen-brunson-covering-his-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/762544\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Brown\u2019s cringey \u2018Fallon\u2019 moment leaves Jalen Brunson covering his face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Brown was back in his \u201cBaha Men\u201d form on Monday, when he and the New York Knicks<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-team=\"20000006\" data-name=\"New York Knicks\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"New York Knicks\"><\/a> made an appearance on\u00a0 \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most indelible moments of the Knicks\u2019 celebration following their Game 5 win over the San Antonio Spurs<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-team=\"20000024\" data-name=\"San Antonio Spurs\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"San Antonio Spurs\"><\/a> on Saturday was Brown breaking into an impromptu \u201cWho Let the Dogs Out?\u201d performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fallon brought that up on the show to the chagrin of Knicks guard Jalen Brunson<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-athlete=\"20002032\" data-name=\"Jalen Brunson\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Jalen Brunson\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got to put that to bed!\u201d Brunson quipped, before Brown shared the details of how his celebration came to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Brown started to recreate the gesture while asking the audience for help, Brunson and Knicks big man Karl-Anthony Towns visibly couldn\u2019t handle the cringe, covering their faces as the moment unfolded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got to put that to bed!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jalenbrunson1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@jalenbrunson1<\/a> on Coach Mike Brown singing \u201cWho Let the Dogs Out\u201d \ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nyknicks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@nyknicks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/KnicksOnFallon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#KnicksOnFallon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/KnicksInStudio6B?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#KnicksInStudio6B<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NBAFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#NBAFinals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ga3g0kHyuy\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ga3g0kHyuy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FallonTonight\/status\/2066734762837061973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 16, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seemingly out of mercy for Brunson and Towns, Fallon asked Brown to take it down a notch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re about to walk out,\u201d Fallon jokingly said. \u201cStop doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown can celebrate any way he wants after successfully leading the Knicks to basketball nirvana that the franchise had long sought for over five decades. If Brown wants to belt out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M6mrDJdRkm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cCrocodile Rock,\u201d<\/a> by all means, Brunson and Towns should just let him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before this year, the last time New York won an NBA title was in 1973, when Brown was just three years old.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Brown was back in his \u201cBaha Men\u201d form on Monday, when he and the New York Knicks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,288,8768,4056,3357,6,191,986,477,4055],"class_list":["post-762544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento-kings","tag-basketball","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-kings","tag-mike-brown","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramentokings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116760269501251794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762544","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=762544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}