BRUNSON BURNER: to NYK for 4yrs/$104M (no SnT) | NYK docked 2025 2nd for tampering

[hakeemfaan]

@"audiosway". The issue is not that Brunson now might be considered an overpay. The issue is a series of bad decisions starting with the previous mgmt not picking up the option to the current mgmt not evaluating a player they saw everyday to not give him a smaller deal earlier that he might have accepted.  That is what most are upset about.  

You cannot lose your 2nd best shot creator, one who improved tremendously from the last playoffs to this year, and try to just focus on the defensive side. Was JeT a great 2 way player? We would not have a title without him. What great 2 way player do you have confidence that this franchise will correctly evaluate and get?  Even if they get and develop one that player will also most probably walk away. 

You say this is a good decision. This is the start of Luka looking at the rest of the West and realizing he is on a team going nowhere and working for an incompetent management. He will force a trade sooner than later now.

Little did I know that the Mavs would actually end up going to the finals a couple of years later, but instead of Luka asking for a trade, we'd go and trade him for a bag of peanuts. What a cluster fk of an organization. 

Later on in the thread, I also said that if 5 years/$125mill is what is needed now, the Mavs should not think twice and do it, because it would still be a bargain contract. This was with me not knowing that JB would take such a massive step forward. Yet it was obvious to see his skill and realize that $25m would still be a bargain for him, and would be an easily tradeable contract.

I did get the Knicks part wrong. I thought that this would be their major move, not knowing they'd still find a way to get KAT and Anunoby.