Jalen Brunson‘s “Saturday Night Live” monologue featured some familiar faces, as the remaining members of the Knicks starting five visited Studio 8H to roast their team captain.
\n\nBut before Karl-Anthony Towns, Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges and OG Anunoby appeared on screen, Kenan Thompson took the stage as ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith.
\n\n“Let me say this, Jalen Brunson. I am man enough to admit that I was wrong,” Thompson-as-Smith said. “When the New York Knickerbockers signed you and I did not think that you were the answer, nor did I believe that you could deliver the team’s first championship since 1973, when I was only 5 years old.”
\n\nAfter Brunson interrupted: “How long’s this going to go?” Smith replied: “About another seven minutes.” Brunson booted his “detractor” off the stage and took questions from the audience, which just so happened to include his teammates.
\n\n“I have a question. Can you foul out of ‘SNL’?” Towns asked, referencing his dismissal from Game 5 against the Spurs. “I could be here, like, the whole show?”
\n\nAfter Bridges and Anunoby gave Brunson a hard time, Hart asked, “Is it true that you took a $113 million pay cut just to resign with the…
Original source: https://variety.com/