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,

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,

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,