Jay Wright won’t need to search the Knicks’ schedule to know when they’re playing. His phone will tell him.
It will buzz constantly, with text messages, photos and videos pouring in from Villanova alums, friends and family members as two of his former stars, Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart, lead the Knicks to their latest victory.
“Villanova people are just going crazy over it because they’re all Knicks fans,” the recently retired Villanova coach and current CBS college basketball analyst told The Post in a phone interview. “It’s really thrilling for all of us. To see the joy it’s bringing all the Villanova people, and I should say the people who aren’t Knicks fans, they are now, Villanovans.”
His NBA career arc has followed what he did in college, starting as a role player and eventually becoming a star. Wright recalled watching him put up massive numbers in high school, huge scoring games that sometimes reached into the 50s. He has seen this all before. He laughs now at the summer narrative that the Knicks overpaid for Brunson by giving him a four-year, $104 million contract to leave Luka Doncic and the Mavericks.
Team president Leon Rose, when he worked at CAA, was Hart’s agent. Hart is extremely close with Brunson. And it would be an opportunity to get back to his northeast roots as a Silver Spring, Md., native after spending time in Los Angeles, New Orleans and Portland.“I think he’s in love with New York City,” the 61-year-old Wright said. “I think he would love being here.”
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