Hoops Tonight - Why Jalen Brunson is #9 in my NBA player rankings for 2025 | New York Knicks
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Jason explains why he has Jalen Brunson, point guard for the New York Knicks, ranked inside the top 10 of his NBA player rankings and ahead of guys such as Anthony Davis, Donovan Mitchell, and Kevin Durant. Then he reacts to comments made by Denzel Washington and makes the case against gatekeepers of content.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | The Volume. |
| 0:19.9 | All right. Welcome to HoC tonight here at The Volume. |
| 0:21.9 | Happy Wednesday, everybody. |
| 0:22.9 | Hope all of you guys are having a great week. |
| 0:24.3 | We are continuing our top 10 in our player rankings today with number nine, Jalen Brunson. |
| 0:30.2 | We're going to be doing a deep dive on Jalen and what he does for this New York Knicks team. |
| 0:36.0 | At the tail end of the show today, Denzel Washington came out and was pretty critical of the current state of sports media. As you guys know, it followed me over the years. I'm bullish on the current state of sports media. I think it's been a better situation than we've ever had before. And so I have some comments on that as well at the tail end of the show. You guys know the joke before we started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel. |
| 0:56.5 | So you don't miss any more of our videos. Follow me on Twitter underscore Jason LT. So you guys don't miss show announcements. Don't forget about our podcast feed, wherever you get your podcasts under Hoops tonight. It's also super helpful if you leave a rating and a review on that front. Jackson's doing incredible work on our social media feeds on Twitter, Instagram, |
| 0:54.3 | Facebook, and TikTok. Make sure you guys follow us there for content throughout the remainder of |
| 0:57.5 | the season. |
| 1:14.3 | And last but at least, if you disagree with any of these rankings in any way, shape, or form, |
| 1:18.3 | please go in the YouTube comments here, write mailbag with a colon and then explain. |
| 1:23.4 | Just in an elevator pitch, why you disagree with the ranking. Make a basketball case. |
| 1:28.0 | And then on Fridays throughout the remainder of this list, we have plenty of time about |
| 1:32.4 | another month or so over the course of this off season where we'll be covering these guys. |
| 1:37.3 | Drop your arguments and we'll get to them in our Friday mailbags throughout the remainder |
| 1:42.1 | of this series. |
| 1:43.4 | All right, let's talk some basketball. |
| 1:45.1 | So for Jalen Brunson at number nine, this is his first appearance in the top 10 since we |
| 1:51.0 | started doing this hoops tonight, top 25 list, which I believe this is our fourth time doing |
| 1:55.4 | it, if I remember correctly. Last year in review for Jalen Brunson, 65 games played, basically |
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