Two-time All-NBA New York Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson has gotten honest about the risk of complacency heading into a pivotal 2025-26 NBA season.

With the Indiana Pacers and Boston Celtics seemingly taking themselves off the board by not fully addressing the Achilles tendon tear absences of their two best players, point guard Tyrese Haliburton and power forward Jayson Tatum, respectively, it has fallen to the Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers to pick up the slack as the presumed best remaining healthy teams in the Eastern Conference.

Knicks Reportedly Expected to Make Trade Ahead of New Season

Last year, Cleveland went 64-18 and secured the East's No. 1 seed, before being upset in the second round by Indiana.

Boasting four All-Stars in their primes in guards Donovan Mitchell, po

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