{"id":107,"date":"2026-06-22T22:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/?p=107"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:01:06","slug":"christopher-meloni-absolutely-wants-jalen-brunson-on-svu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Meloni &#8216;absolutely&#8217; wants Jalen Brunson on &#8216;SVU&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"170\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Christopher Meloni<\/span><\/span> is enthusiastically supporting the idea of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jalen Brunson<\/span><\/span> appearing on <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"353\">When asked about Brunson&#8217;s stated goal of guest-starring on <em data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"237\">SVU<\/em> after helping lead the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">New York Knicks<\/span><\/span> to an NBA championship, Meloni said he was all for it.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"465\">\n<p data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"465\">\u201cAbsolutely. I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve heard, but he&#8217;s a world champion. He can do whatever the hell he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"609\">Meloni added that Brunson possesses the determination needed to make it happen, praising what he called the basketball star&#8217;s &#8220;force of will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"611\" data-end=\"930\">The idea gained attention after Brunson revealed that one of his post-championship ambitions was to appear on <em data-start=\"721\" data-end=\"726\">SVU<\/em>. The dream is tied in part to his friendship with <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Mariska Hargitay<\/span><\/span>, who stars as Olivia Benson on the long-running series and is one of the Knicks&#8217; most visible celebrity supporters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christopher Meloni Supports Jalen Brunson&amp;apos;s &amp;apos;Law &amp; Order&amp;apos; Ambitions | TMZ\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3JS2yuXAzU0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Meloni is enthusiastically supporting the idea of Jalen Brunson appearing on Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit. When asked about Brunson&#8217;s stated goal of guest-starring on SVU after helping lead the New York Knicks to an NBA championship, Meloni said he was all for it. \u201cAbsolutely. I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve heard, but he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stars","category-todays-news","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustoday.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}