Despite missing a potential game-winner on Martin Luther King Day’s loss to the Toronto Raptors, New York Knicks rising point guard Jalen Brunson is still one of the best clutch players this season.
Brunson ranked fifth in the first NBA.com’s Clutch Player Ladder that will keep tabs on the candidates for the newest individual award — Clutch Player of the Year — named after the Hall of Fame guard and Los Angeles Lakers legend Jerry West.
The 26-year-old Brunson, who has stabilized the Knicks backcourt this season, is trailing Sacramento’s De’Aaron Fox, his former teammate with Dallas Mavericks, Luka Doncic, last season’s Mr.