The 2015 tweet garnered attention on social media before tipoff on Saturday, June 13
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NEED TO KNOW
- A decade-plus-old tweet posted by Jalen Brunson is getting renewed attention
- “One win away,” a then-18-year-old Brunson wrote on then-Twitter
- Brunson, raised in the Chicago area, was likely referring to the Chicago Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Final
A Jalen Brunson tweet from exactly 11 years ago today is getting newfound attention from hopeful Knicks fans everywhere.
“One win away,” Brunson wrote on Twitter (now X) on June 13, 2015.
Then 18 years old and on the eve of attending Villanova University, the Chicago-area bred Brunson was likely referring to the Chicago Blackhawks, who were playing the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley Cup Final that year.
The Blackhawks went on to win the Stanley Cup in June 2015 — and now fans are hoping the star point guard’s tweet proves prescient as it relates to the Knicks.
“BRING IT HOME JB,” one user wrote in a reply to the unearthed tweet, while another observed, “One win away aged like fine wine apparently.”
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On Saturday, June 13, the Knicks will aim to do something they haven’t done in 53 years — win an NBA championship.
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Leading the series 3-1 against the San Antonio Spurs, the Knicks won on Wednesday, June 10, in last-second fashion, thanks to an OG Anunoby tip-in at the buzzer, sealing the team’s come-from-29-points-behind win.
Numerous celebrity Knicks fans made the return trip back to San Antonio on Saturday — including Tracy Morgan, John Turturro and Sydney Sweeney — to see the possible history unfold at Frost Bank Center.
Only one team has come back from being down 3-1 in the NBA Finals — the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers — as the Spurs embark on their quest to send the series back to New York City for a possible Game 6 on Tuesday, June 16.
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