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

[Moviemavguy]

I think you are greatly underestimating how much losing their #2 scorer for nothing (or S&T table scraps) would hurt the Mavs. It would take years to recover from that. Wood is not a Brunson replacement, he's a potential fix for a major problem area in the front court. And Hardy is a project who will take years to become a productive NBA player, if he ever does.

More importantly, losing Brunson would be a sign Cuban still isn't serious about winning, and if he isn't serious now, he never will be.

This is hyperbole, and you somehow didn't address that I said we could trade for someone else.  Remember that Brunson had to fill in the scoring void left by THJ.  

And Spencer with a full training camp and starting might show a much better player.  

We were the 5th seed the season before in which Brunson did nothing in the playoffs.  The idea that it would take years to recover is just laughably misguided.  I love Brunson, but he has magically gone from criminally underrated to overrated realllly quickly.  

Yes, Wood is a fix in a much greater need IMO.  

You'd miss the intangibles the most with Brunson along with his insanely good consistency, but this isn't a years to recover situation by any means. Losing a tradable asset would hurt the most.