‘It wasn’t okay at all’

It wasn’t a “very good thing” when Martha Stewart he broke his massive toe at a New York Knicks recreation final May.

The life-style guru was sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden when the house staff’s level guard, Jalen Brunson, dove for a ball out of bounds — and “crashed” proper into 84-year-old Stewart, who was sporting open-toe sandals.

As her massive toe throbbed in ache, she knew instantly the 190-pound athlete had damaged the bone.

Nearly a 12 months later, she just lately received the prospect to confront Brunson on his podcast, Roommates Showco-hosted by his teammate Josh Hart.

The two-time NBA All-Star was deeply apologetic, though he admitted he did not keep in mind the second, which went down because the Knicks squared off in opposition to the Indiana Pacers within the Eastern Conference Finals.

As Stewart recounted, Brunson not solely landed on her, he even sat on her lap.

“You jumped up really fast. And I remember saying to you, ‘It’s okay.’ You had no idea that you had hurt me. I didn’t say you hurt me, but I said, ‘It’s okay.’ “It wasn’t okay at all.”

After the game — which went into overtime, much to her painful chagrin — Stewart headed straight to the Hospital for Special Surgery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to have her toe checked out.

“They’ve named it the ‘Stewart-Brunson fracture,’” she joked. “I have an X-ray, I’m going to leave you a picture of it… it was actually a break, so anyways, it’s better now… It took one year to heal.”

Stewart beforehand told the story on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonand revealed she really bumped into the NBA star’s mother and father, Knicks assistant coach Rick Brunson and his spouse Sandra, within the Hamptons. And she could not assist however inform them what their son did. “They were laughing,” she instructed Fallon. “They thought it was so funny.”

Brunson now adds a little more to the story: His dad FaceTimed him to virtually apologize to Stewart. He later also sent her a basketball, which she gave to her grandson.

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In the end, there’s no bad blood — and Stewart learned a valuable lesson.

“It’s my fault for wearing open-toe shoes to a basketball game,” she reasoned. “I look again at it as simply one thing foolish, silly, and humorous. It was silly of me.”

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