NBA Finals MVP Jalen Brunson, of the 2026 championship-winning New York Knicks, kicked off the 52nd season of “Saturday Night Live.”
\n\nDuring Saturday’s hoops-heavy show, Brunson delivered a monologue in which he promised to approach his “SNL” performance with the same strategy he used during Knicks’ NBA Finals games.
\n\n“The first three quarters of the show are going to be god awful,” he said. “The last sketch is going to be amazing.”
\n\nThe monologue featured “SNL” veteran Kenan Thompson as ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, invited by Brunson so the player could “get some closure” after Smith had expressed doubts about his abilities.
\n\n“I am man enough to admit that I was wrong when the New York Knickerbockers signed you and I did not think that you were the answer,” Thompson’s Smith said. “Nor did I believe that you could deliver the team’s first championship since 1973, when I was only 5 years old.”
\n\nKnicks teammates Josh Hart, OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns made cameo appearances to portray members of the studio audience chosen to ask questions of the point guard.
\n\n“Can you foul out of ‘SNL?’” Towns asked.
\n\nIn the recorded sketch “High School Musical the New…
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