Jalen Brunson so often receives beckoning “MVP” chants around Madison Square Garden. Well, MVPs have a habit of raising their game to another level when co-stars, particularly ones as important as OG Anunoby,

While it was Precious Achiuwa who stepped into the starting spot vacated by Anunoby, who missed his first game of the season with a sprained right foot suffered Saturday night, it was the four remaining starters who picked up the slack,

This is why you call him captain — because when the Knicks needed him most, Jalen Brunson delivered. With OG Anunoby sidelined due to a right foot sprain and New York’s defense scrambling without its best stopper,