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And though Jalen told Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a> that he usually makes sure he’s “not doing too much” on his days off, double dates with fellow Knicks guard Josh Hart<\/strong> and\u00a0his\u00a0<\/em>wife Shannon Phillips\u00a0<\/strong>aren’t out of bounds.<\/p>\n “Our wives will be like, ‘You guys just saw each other,'” Jalen said. “And we’re like, ‘Yeah. And?'”<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n But Josh, 31, knew<\/em> she was the one when he caught her reaction to his ejection from a game in 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI think she just texted me \u2018Woosah\u2019 or something like that,\u201d he told the New York Times<\/em><\/a> in October. \u201cI just started laughing. And I was like, OK, this is my person. Even when I\u2019m as mad as I am right now, it still calmed me down.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n