Luxury Tax Hell

[Scott41theMavs]

Over the course of the past two seasons, Jalen has remained almost exactly the same player, except for playing a few more minutes per game in 21/22.  As far as JB’s “development” goes, nothing surprising at all happened.  

From my point of view, this point of view has no basis in reality. That said, your point remains - it was on the Mavs to know who Brunson was and what he would become. The fact of the matter is that the Mavs' timeline was screwed - Brunson hadn't showed out like he would in the playoffs before the trade deadline, so teams were hardly going to give the Mavs his eventual real worth in trade, whereas after the TDL, he was no longer the Mavs' asset.