The Knicks’ New Star Is Unapologetically New York

It was like a wrestling promo interrupted.

Friday night, following New York’s 116-94 thumping of the Milwaukee Bucks, Knicks star Jalen Brunson had his back to his locker and a herd of reporters in his face. The guard was talking about everything New York did right when, between answers, music hit abruptly from the doorway — a song by the late MF Doom, an underground British-American rapper raised in New York. Reporters’ necks naturally turned and in came Karl-Anthony Towns, the four-time All-Star big man who was traded to the Knicks last month.

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From Towns’ phone boomed a series of New York rap staples, like “Whoa” by the late Black Rob,

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