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Birth Name: Jalen Marquis Brunson
Place of Birth: New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 31, 1996
Ethnicity: African-American, African-Jamaican
Jalen Brunson is an American professional basketball player. A point guard, he plays for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was previously with the Dallas Mavericks.
He is the son of Sandra and professional basketball player and coach Rick Brunson (Eric Daniel Brunson), who also played with the New York Knicks, and is assistant coach for the team. His maternal grandparents were Jamaican. Jalen was partly raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and then in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
Jalen is married to Dr. Ali Marks, with whom he has one child. Ali is of Ashkenazi Jewish and Italian-Irish descent.
Jalen’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Stevenson.