05-30-2026, 10:04 PM
(05-30-2026, 09:55 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I think Jalen Brunson has a fairly decent chance of winning a ring. Crazy how badly the Mavs have killed their own team.
The Jalen Brunson thing was a difficult one from the start. Donnie started it off by giving a player option on the final year as a favor to his bud Rick. Next Jalen does very well and contributes heavily to the Mavs going to a WCF, but totally stunk there. It was not sure at that point if he and Luka would work with both of them being ball dominate guys who were not great defensively. So you have two starters who are poor defensively.
If the Mavs dealt Jalen then, they would have got something but it would not have been what he would get now, because he was not a superstar here.
I came the day the trade was made and said it was a disaster losing Jalen for nothing and I would have gladly given him 5 years for 125 because it would still be a bargain when scrubs like Harrison Barnes and Tobias Harris regularly get huge contracts. However, I don't know if we would have got anything more than at best some mid first + some fillers for the Jalen Brunson who was here.