Triple H Was Concerned Jalen Brunson Injured Himself During Recent WWE Smackdown Angle

In an interview with The Roommates Show (via Fightful), Triple H said that he was worried that Jalen Brunson injured himself during his WWE appearance back in June. At the time, Brunson was recovering from a hand injury. After he entered the ring, he planted on the hand and then looked at it. This led Triple H to suspect the injury had worsened.

Brunson said: “Were you upset with me when I got in the ring and looked at my hand? […] I didn’t think I was going to do that. It was the first time I had really used my hand since pre-breaking it. I looked at it and was like, ‘Oh, I guess it’s alright.’ I wasn’t, ‘Ah, I hurt it.’”

Triple H replied: “I wasn’t upset, I was scared. I was like, ‘The one thing we can’t do is hurt (Jalen).’ I had told everybody, at a certain point in time, somebody like you comes in and as everybody is talking to him, you’re a big star, especially in our world. You kind of convince them of everything. It is my job to make sure nobody gets hurt. I’m like, ‘I don’t care what he says, he’s not to do stuff with his hand and we have to be careful.’ You came in, slid in, and pushed off on your hand. I came up out of my seat, ‘Oh my God.’ You got up and looked at your hand. […] We practiced him getting in the ring. ‘Here’s how you get in the ring without using that hand. Here is how the chair works without using the other hand.’ We have practiced. Then, when he got in, adrenaline takes over and he slid in. That’s what I’m looking at, his hand, as he’s sliding in. When I saw him push off and immediately (look at it), I was like, ‘Oh, we will never do anything with the NBA again. We’re doomed.’”