Max Kellerman Claims Thunder Would Have Beat Spurs Had SGA Been Replaced With Brunson

In December 2025 Max Kellerman claimed the Knicks will never win a championship with Jalen Brunson as their best player Six months later Kellerman says he'd pick Brunson over SGA to lead a team in a playoff series Clipped from the Bill Simmons Podcast

Max Kellerman and Antonio Daniels would rather have Jalen Brunson over Luka Doncic if they wanted to win a championship I would say Brunson The reason Id say that is because Ive seen Brunson play with and without the ball

Coach Mitch Johnson on what the Spurs could have done differently against Brunson Make him score less points

Stephen A Smith on Jalen Brunson I'm shocked to have to say thistonight it looked like he was playing to be an MVP rather than be playing to win game 3

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander hits the step back 3 over Julian Champagnie to put the Thunder up 18 early in the 2nd halfThe Spurs take a timeout and SGA already has more points than he had in Game 4 19

Draymond Calls Out Knicks Players and Says He Would Have Gotten Ejected if it Was Steph Being Pushed by Wemby instead of Brunson