WNBA's Becky Hammon refuses to apologize for brutal Jalen Brunson take even after his Finals MVP performance

WNBA manager Becky Hammon refuses to apologize for her Jalen Brunson take.

In 2023, Hammon said that Brunson was not a "1A dude" and said that if your champion subordinate is small, you aren’t going to triumph connected ESPN’s "NBA Today." She doubled down connected her instrumentality successful precocious May and questioned wherefore everyone was truthful stuck connected it.

Despite Brunson winning Finals MVP and starring the Knicks to a title, she inactive refused to apologize for her instrumentality connected Tuesday.

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(Left) Las Vegas Aces caput manager Becky Hammon coaches against the Phoenix Mercury during the archetypal fractional successful Phoenix, Arizona, connected June 17, 2026. (Right) Jalen Brunson is seen during the New York Knicks ticker-tape parade on the Canyon of Heroes successful New York City, New York, connected June 18, 2026. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images; NDZ/Star Max/GC Images)

"Jalen, each helium did was beryllium past wrong. He proves he’s an outlier," Hammon said aft the Aces’ shootaround, according to the New York Post. "So you tin enactment his sanction adjacent to Steph Curry and Isiah Thomas, and I thought helium played brilliantly, particularly down the stretch."

"I mean, helium was that 1A dude," Hammon said. "But apologize, I’m ne'er gonna apologize for having an opinion. That’s what ESPN pays maine for." 

Brunson, who is 6-foot-2, scored 45 points successful the Knicks’ championship-sealing 94-90 triumph implicit the San Antonio Spurs successful Game 5 and cemented himself arsenic 1 of the champion players successful franchise history.

The Knicks’ skipper past appeared to code Hammon’s comments during the Knicks parade past week erstwhile speaking successful beforehand of City Hall.

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Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks celebrates with the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award trophy and Knicks proprietor James Dolan aft defeating the San Antonio Spurs successful Game Five of the 2026 NBA Finals astatine Frost Bank Center successful San Antonio, Texas, connected June 13, 2026. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

"There’s a batch of radical who person a batch of antagonistic worldly to say," Brunson said. "There’s a batch of radical who person their ain opinions. But erstwhile you beryllium them wrong, you don’t person to accidental s–t to them. They don’t merit it."

While Brunson whitethorn not person straight addressed Hammon, she has been the taxable of ire among Knicks fans for her now-infamous take. Hammon past offered different instrumentality connected Brunson to "piss disconnected Knicks fans again."

"Let maine conscionable piss disconnected Knicks fans again and say, I deliberation he’s the top Knick ever," Hammon said. "Give them thing other to speech about. ... I’ve ever been a Jalen Brunson fan. I was a instrumentality of his astatine Villanova, successful Dallas, and wherefore this remark went disconnected the rails, I person nary thought due to the fact that it was intelligibly a humanities and analytical take."

When she doubled down successful May, she said she was up for being "being proven wrong."

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New York Knicks defender Jalen Brunson warms up earlier crippled 5 of the NBA Finals astatine Frost Bank Center successful San Antonio, Texas, connected June 13, 2026. (Scott Wachter/Imagn Images)

Brunson conscionable concluded his 4th play with the team, but has already turned himself into a franchise icon.

In 4 seasons with the Knicks, Brunson has averaged 26 points, 5.3 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game. He has made the All-Star squad 3 times successful his 4 seasons and was named the NBA’s Clutch Player of the Year past season.

In the NBA playoffs, Brunson has taken his crippled to different level. He has averaged 29.4 points, 5.5 assists and 3.7 rebounds successful 4 playoff runs with the Knicks and helped the Knicks extremity their 53-year playoff drought.

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