AP Images/Ringer illustration How is Jalen Brunson putting up Peak MJ and Kobe numbers? Today's NBA offenses revolve around one star more than ever before. Jalen Brunson is more than just the leading scorer in the 2024 NBA playoffs. He is the centerpiece of the best New York Knicks team in decades and the epitome of one of the biggest trends in the NBA from the 2020s. Over his past five games, Brunson has scored a staggering 210 points. You have to go back to 1993, when Michael Jordan scored 215 points in a ridiculous five-game playoff run, to find the last time an NBA player has had a more prolific postseason scoring run than this. That's Peak MJ, and while some bing-bonging Knicks fans might assert that Brunson is the second coming of his airness, that's not what's happening here. Brunson's gaudy box score numbers are awesome by any measure, but they are also the by-product of one of the biggest stylistic movements in the NBA right now; today's NBA offenses are more concentrated around perimeter stars than ever before. In a post-Moneyball NBA, teams continue to arbitrage holy efficiency wherever they can find it, and recently that's meant just handing the ball to your star...