And though Jalen told Vanity Fair that he usually makes sure he’s “not doing too much” on his days off, double dates with fellow Knicks guard Josh Hart and his wife Shannon Phillips aren’t out of bounds.
“Our wives will be like, ‘You guys just saw each other,'” Jalen said. “And we’re like, ‘Yeah. And?'”
Josh and Shannon, who’s now a nurse, were also teen sweethearts, their romance blossoming in their hometown of Silver Spring, Md. She played soccer at University of Miami, Baltimore County, while he hooped for Villanova in Pennsylvania.
But Josh, 31, knew she was the one when he caught her reaction to his ejection from a game in 2018.
“I think she just texted me ‘Woosah’ or something like that,” he told the New York Times in October. “I just started laughing. And I was like, OK, this is my person. Even when I’m as mad as I am right now, it still calmed me down.”