2026年6月26日 美国东部时间上午11:49 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：乔恩·拉普克 首席医学记者
早在儿子杰伦·布伦森带领尼克斯队夺得NBA总冠军——当时他的丈夫里克担任球队教练组成员——之前，桑德拉·布伦森就已是天普大学一级联赛的排球运动员。
她在《CBS早间节目》中表示，打排球让她“更了解自己”。
“它真的让我看到了各种可能性，”桑德拉·布伦森说道。
如今这些可能性包括“第二轮基金会”——这是桑德拉2022年与儿子杰伦共同创立的非营利组织，其宗旨是通过提供教育机会、体育参与渠道、健康营养及其他关键资源，赋能年轻人。
“第二轮基金会源于杰伦的经历，”桑德拉·布伦森在《CBS早间节目》中表示。“他在NBA选秀中以第33顺位被选中，很多人不知道，第33顺位属于第二轮。我想让他明白，仅仅因为没被视作NBA前十顺位新秀，并不意味着他无法取得成功。”
2026年6月18日，在纽约市举行的纽约尼克斯队2026年冠军游行中，纽约尼克斯队的杰伦·布伦森与家人一同乘坐花车，右一为他的母亲桑德拉。王帆/中国新闻社/视觉中国 盖蒂图片社
桑德拉·布伦森刚随尼克斯队夺冠后，便登上了科罗拉多州阿斯彭健康思想论坛的讲台，该论坛聚焦医学、健康与科学的未来。她与前NFL明星拉塞尔·威尔逊一同探讨了改善青少年心理健康的方法——她认为这是帮助年轻人茁壮成长的关键。
“我们能产生影响的最快方式，就是走进那些孩子和家庭急需资源的学校，”她说。“我们规模不大，还在发展中，所有参与者都是志愿者。我们进展缓慢，一步一个脚印，因为我们做事非常有条理。”
桑德拉·布伦森在基金会中循序渐进的工作方式，与她养育杰伦和小女儿埃丽卡的育儿理念一脉相承：努力工作，不走捷径，保持清醒的认知。她的方法之一是在儿子成长过程中留一些鼓励的便条。
“我想是从他高中二年级开始的，我开始给他写灵修短文或是小纸条，”她说。“把纸条贴在浴室的镜子上，贴在冰箱上，还会放进他的午餐袋里。”
桑德拉还开创了另一个传统，帮助杰伦保持清醒的认知——每场比赛前给他发短信。
“只是为了给他一些鼓励的话，让他认清现状，你知道，就像这是一场重要的比赛，但并不是世界末日，”她说。“这只是篮球而已。”
但当儿子在本月早些时候赢得个人首个NBA总冠军并当选总决赛MVP时，她依然会紧盯每一个回合。
“多年来我一直跟他说，作为一名领袖，他必须明白每个人都有自己的职责，他的每一位队友都必须对自己的角色感到自在，并相信自己的角色，无论这个角色是什么。而这就是他作为领袖的职责，”桑德拉·布伦森说道。“我想这些年来他已经明白，重要的不是发生了什么，而是你如何应对。”
Jalen Brunson’s mom on teaching him to be a leader: “It’s not what happens, it’s how you respond”
June 26, 2026 11:49 AM EDT / CBS News
By Jon LaPook Chief Medical Correspondent
Long before her son Jalen Brunson led the Knicks to an NBA championship — with her husband Rick on the coaching staff — Sandra Brunson was a Division I volleyball player at Temple University.
She told “CBS Mornings” that playing volleyball taught her “a lot about myself.”
“It really opened my eyes to possibilities,” Sandra Brunson said.
Those possibilities now include The Second Round Foundation, the nonprofit Sandra co-founded in 2022 with her son, Jalen. Its mission is to empower young people by providing educational opportunities, access to sports, healthy nutrition and other critical resources.
“The Second Round Foundation was born out of Jalen’s journey,” Sandra Brunson told “CBS Mornings.” “So, he was the 33rd pick in the NBA draft and for some people who don’t know, the 33rd pick is in the second round. I wanted him to understand that just because he wasn’t viewed as a top 10 pick in the NBA didn’t mean that he couldn’t succeed.”
Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks rides on a float with his family, including his mother, Sandra, far right, during the New York Knicks 2026 championship parade on June 18, 2026, in New York City. Wang Fan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images
Sandra Brunson took the stage fresh off the Knicks’ title run at Aspen Ideas: Health, a conference in Colorado exploring the future of medicine, wellness and science. Along with former NFL star Russell Wilson, she discussed ways to improve youth mental health — a cause she believes is essential to helping young people thrive.
“The fastest way that we can have an impact is to go to schools where children need resources and families need resources,” she said. “We’re small and we’re growing and it’s all volunteers. We move slowly, small steps, because they’re very methodical.”
Sandra Brunson’s slow and steady approach to her foundation mirrors her philosophy on parenting Jalen and his younger sister, Erica — hard work, no shortcuts and keeping perspective. One way she did that was by leaving him short notes of encouragement growing up.
“I would say it started about his sophomore year in high school. So I started giving him like devotionals or little notes,” she said. “Tape it to the mirror in the bathroom, tape it to the fridge. I would put it in his lunch bag.”
Sandra also started another tradition to help give Jalen perspective — texting him before each game.
“Just to give him some words of encouragement and to put, you know, what he’s doing in perspective, you know, like it’s a big game, but it’s not the end of the world,” she said. “It’s basketball.”
But she was still hanging on every play as her son won his first NBA championship and NBA Finals MVP earlier this month.
“That one thing I’ve told him in years past is that as a leader, he has to understand that everyone has a job to do and every one of his teammates have to feel comfortable in their role and believe in their role and no matter what it is. And that’s his role as a leader,” Sandra Brunson said. “And I think that he has learned over the years it’s not what happens, it’s how you respond.”
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