Knicks star Jalen Brunson makes his acting debut on Law & Order: SVU
New York Knicks captain Jalen Brunson has swapped the court for a TV set, making his dramatic acting debut on the long-running series Law & Order: SVU.
Basketball fans, you might want to keep your TV on this week. Jalen Brunson, the 30-year-old point guard of the New York Knicks, has made his dramatic acting debut on Law & Order: SVU, the long-running American crime drama.
It is a big change of scene for a player who usually spends his evenings in front of a packed arena. Brunson has been one of the NBA's most talked-about names since he left the Dallas Mavericks in 2022 to sign a four-year deal with the Knicks. Ahead of the 2025-26 season, the team made him captain.
Now he is trying something completely different: acting in one of television's best-known franchises, which is set in New York, the same city he calls home on the court.
The appearance marks his first dramatic role on screen. Whether this is a one-off cameo or the start of a second career is not clear yet, but it is already turning heads beyond the sports pages.
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