{"id":582,"date":"2026-09-18T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:19:46","slug":"new-york-knicks-star-jalen-brunson-lands-role-on-law-order-svu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson lands role on &#8216;Law &amp; Order: SVU&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-09-18\/Getty_JalenBrunsonMariska_091826.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jalen Brunson and Mariska Hargitay attend the &#8216;My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay&#8217; Premiere during the 2025 Tribeca Festival at Carnegie Hall on June 13, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson is heading to<em> Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The guest-starring role on season 28 of the NBC drama series has been in the making for a while. <em>SVU<\/em> star Mariska Hargitay is a big Knicks fan and was a courtside mainstay for the playoffs this year, often seen hugging Brunson after the games. The team won their first championship in 53 years back in June.<\/p>\n<p>After the win, Brunson was asked what he would do in the offseason and he responded, \u201cTry to get on <em>SVU<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the plans finally make it out of the group chat. Jalen Brunson is officially headed to #SVU!\u201d the show\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdZuO1fibPv\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> posted.<\/p>\n<p>The point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdZ7FpbCClp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will appear<\/a> in the Nov. 5 episode, though his role remains under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson also appeared with Hargitay in the opening segment of the 78th Emmys, which Hargitay hosted. He\u2019s set to host the season 52 premiere of <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Brunson and Mariska Hargitay attend the &#8216;My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay&#8217; Premiere during the 2025 Tribeca Festival at Carnegie Hall on June 13, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival) New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson is heading to Law &amp; Order: SVU. The guest-starring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}