Jalen Brunson has had several dozen teammates since he first started playing basketball as a kid. And it didn’t take long for the Dallas Mavericks’ guard to reveal his most important teammate of them all.
It’s his mom – Sandra Brunson.
In a Zoom interview conducted by the Dallas-based non-profit company Trey Athletes, Jalen said one of the reasons he was able to graduate from Villanova in just three years was due to his mom’s drilling the importance of academic into him.
Thus, as a nod to his mom on this Mother’s Day for instilling in him the value of a college education, Jalen said: “I want to thank my mom, because my dad didn’t give me my smarts.