NYC man inks entire back with Mount Rushmore of Knicks greats — shocking even Jalen Brunson

The Knicks have his back.

Staten Islander Matt McAllister has a Mount Rushmore of Knicks greats inked across his back — including current MVP Jalen Brunson.

And when McAllister took his shirt off to reveal the jaw-dropping tattoo to Brunson himself, the captain was stunned.

Matt McAllister’s Mount Rushmore of Knicks legends was drawn by artist Tom Sanford and inked by Sonja Elise at Bullseye Tattoos on Staten Island. Courtesy of Matt McAllister

“He seems like he’s a guy of very little words . . . but he was like, ‘Oh, that’s hard,’” McAllister, 34, told The Post.

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“Then he said, ‘But Rushmore’s only got four.’

“So I told him I had to add an extra just for him.”

Then shocked star guard Josh Hart “pulled out his phone. He’s like, ‘I gotta take a photo of this. Holy s–t!’”

McAllister presented the over-the-top tat — also featuring legends John Starks, Walt Frazier, Patrick Ewing and Carmelo Anthony — to Brunson and Hart in September at a meet-and-greet for the duo’s Roommates Block Party.

McAllister said the idea for the All-Star artwork came last season when the Knicks finished 51-31, but lost to the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals — a round short of the NBA Finals.

Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart were stunned to see the jaw-dropping ink. Courtesy of Matt McAllister

“After that run we had last year, I was like, ‘Wow, this is really monumental. Let me think of a monument that I can honor everybody with.’”

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The tat cost $9,000 and took 36 hours over six sessions to make. MSG was there to capture it for a commercial.

“I might only see this once in my lifetime again. I have no regrets,” he said.

Knicks superfans Nolan Parr, Ray Rosado and Mirko Falzone all opted for giant leg tattoos of the team’s captain. Nolan Parr, Ray Rosado, Mirko Falzone

Other Knicks superfans have opted for leg tattoos of the “King of New York.”

Ray Rosado, a native of Yonkers, got a $1,350 leg tattoo of Brunson two days after the Knicks lost the 2025 Eastern Conference Finals, “because I had a feeling they would go to the finals this year,” he said.

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