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Jalen Brunson playfully joked about snagging a role alongside Mariska Hargitay on the crime series “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” after winning the NBA Finals 2026.
On Saturday night, the New York Knicks star was asked what was next for him after he and his team defeated the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5.
“Try to get on, try to go to ‘SVU,’” he quipped, per an Instagram video shared by the NBA.
Following the historic win, Hargitay, 62, took to Instagram to celebrate the Knicks’ win with a throwback photo of Brunson as a kid, repping a T-shirt for the NBA team and holding a basketball.
“You found a way” was written atop the photo of the point guard, now 29, in orange-and-blue letters.
“And you lead the way for so many,” the actress captioned the photo. “Congratulations to you all and deepest thanks. #NBAFINALS CAPTAIN @jalenbrunson1 @nyknicks CHAMPIONS #BELIEVE.”
Hargitay has portrayed New York Police Department detective Olivia Benson on the long-standing NBC series since 1999.
There are currently 27 seasons of the crime drama, which also stars Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler and Dann Florek as Donald Cragen.
Brunson has been candid about his admiration for Hargitay, admitting that he looks for her at every Knicks game hosted at their home stadium, Madison Square Garden.
“Love her to death [and] she knows it,” he confessed on a previous episode of “The Richard Jefferson Show.”
The athlete referred to himself as the “Lake Placid” star’s “No. 1.”
As a loyal Knicks fan, Hargitay has attended several games this season, including the Eastern Conference Finals game against the Cleveland Cavaliers in May.
She was also present at several NY-based matches during the NBA Finals, including Game 3, which she attended with Meloni, her “SVU” co-star.
Cameras also captured the moment Hargitay jumped up and down with pal Taylor Swift to celebrate the Knicks’ win at Game 4.
Hargitay looked relieved that the Knicks won, joking that the team’s comeback win may have surpassed her 2004 wedding to Peter Hermann as the “greatest night of her life.”
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