Wrestling fan and New York Knicks captain Jalen Brunson perhaps finally had the experience of being a heel for the first time in his professional career. Often

“That’s the beauty of Jalen as a leader,” Wright, who coached the New Jersey-born Brunson to two NCAA championships at Villanova, told NJ Advance Media at the at the 92nd annual MBWA All-Met Haggerty Awards Dinner on Thursday.

If you watched Game 3 of the Knicks-Pistons series with the sound off, you probably wouldn’t know that the home crowd was yelling profanities at Jalen Brunson.