Jalen Brunson is off to an MVP-caliber start to the season with the Knicks, and he earned a different award on Monday, when he was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week. 

In four games last week, Brunson averaged 28.8 points and 4.5 assists per game, shooting 40.7 percent from three-point range.

Perhaps most importantly, the Knicks went 4-0 in those four games, including a 118-109 win over Milwaukee in which Brunson went off for 37 points.

“There’s not enough [MVP] chatter,” head coach Mike Brown said of Brunson after the win over Milwaukee. “It’s early, so I’m not throwing a fit, but the guy had 37 tonight on 12-of-21 (shooting), and he gets blitzed often and he makes the right play -- he did what he’s supposed to do, and that’s why we don’t talk about it because that’s what he’s capable of.

“But hopefully you guys will start talking the right way about this young man in terms of him having some MVP talk because that’s what he is. We’re not playing the best basketball right now, but we’re trending in the right direction and he’s the engine behind it, so to me he did what he's supposed to do which equates to him being the MVP.”

Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic earned Western Conference Player of the Week honors.