Jalen Brunson’s Response To Trae Young Ends New York’s Rage After Security Escort vs Knicks

Trae Young and the Hawks got the last word. But it was Jalen Brunson who came out looking suave. As the cookie crumbles, the Atlanta Hawks 100-108 in New York and advanced to the NBA Cup semifinals. To rub that defeat in further, the Hawks guard Trae Young trolled the entire MSG crowd with a ‘roll the dice’ gesture on the Knicks logo. It was the cause behind all the boos he got on his way out but he had a big fat grin the entire time basking in this win. As the Knicks were eliminated from the in-season tournament, Young’s gesture lit a fire under New York’s biggest star.

New Yorkers were getting quieter in the second half when the Hawks were widening their lead. Young scored 22 points, 11 assists, and 5 rebounds and somewhere in the last few seconds, he went up to the Knicks logo to roll invisible dice. The message was clear, the Hawks are Vegas-bound to roll some dice and compete in the NBA Cup, The Knicks’ tendency to lose crucial games expectedly kicked in.

It looked like a mock celebration to taunt the Knicks home crowd. But as Young revealed in the post-game presser, it was more than that. “I planned that one with my little brother a few days ago,” said Young whose little brother Timothy is a rising basketball phenom himself. “We had talked about that and, I mean, I knew what I was going to do. We was going to Vegas. So that’s what I had to do.”

This is a developing story.