Mavericks thought Jalen Brunson was ‘chubby’ in pre-draft scouting report, Mark Cuban reveals
NY Post
Mark Cuban’s podcast appearance with Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart yielded a revealing moment about what the Mavericks thought of Brunson upon drafting the point guard.
Hart, jokingly, asked the former Mavs owner why the team drafted “the little fat-headed kid from Villanova,” referencing Brunson, and Cuban didn’t quite disagree with that assessment.
“We traded up to get Luka [Doncic] and we get [to] the number 31 [pick],” Cuban said, recalling the 2018 draft. “And all the scouts were like, ‘JB, JB, JB, JB. He’s a winner, yada, yada. Little bit chubby, not quite as fast, not super athletic, but he’s a winner, he’s a champion. You can’t put a value on that. That’s our guy.”
Brunson took that in stride, laughing along with Hart after Cuban dropped “chubby” as a descriptor.
The current Knicks superstar spent the first four years of his career in Dallas before moving to New York.
That came just after Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau hired Brunson’s father, Rick, to his coaching staff, leading Cuban to say in April 2023 that “Rick took over, or the parents took over.”
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