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The New York Knicks were all set to win an NBA championship in 2025 led by a quartet of former Villanova stars: Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, Donte DiVincenzo and the newly acquired Mikal Bridgers.
Then the unthinkable happened. The Knicks trade DiVinzcenzo, along with Julius Randle, to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Karl-Anthony Towns.
Unsurprisingly, DiVincenzo wasn’t a big fan of how things went down, and he was sure to let Brunson, his father and Knicks assistant Rick Brusnon, and the rest of the Knicks know about when he returned to Madison Square Garden for a preseason game last week.
Things got so heated that DiVincenzo and Rick Brunson needed to be separated after the game ended.
DiVincenzo played down the incident after the game.
“Just some words. I don’t fully know what was said,” he said. “A lot of people there. But I have no comment on the situation. We’re both grown men and can talk about it privately.”
Now Brunson and Hart have done the same on the latest episode of their podcast, the Roommates Show.
“I feel like we have to talk about it, you know, families fight,” Brunson said. “Things are said. I mean s— should have been handled better on both sides but everyone thinks the world’s crumbling. I also feel like it (the trade) happened a week and a half ago and all of a sudden we’re playing them. That never really happens.”
Hart then chimed in.
“When you get traded, sometimes you feel unwanted,” he said. “Whenever you play that team, whether it’s the preseason, you go at that team. It’s always personal for you. Everyone’s like ‘Oh, it’s a business. It’s a business.’ We’re actual people. We have emotions. We have feelings. But at the end of the day, it’s always love.”
Whether DiVincenzo is quite ready to move on remains to be seen. But it’s clear that Brunson and Hart didn’t take the altercation or trash talk all that seriously.