2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[ItsGoTime]

I don't have any info about JB's view on the Spurs, specifically.

But I think a lot of us (not necessarily you personally) may have entered the season assuming that the only issue in re-signing JB is whether the Mavs were willing to match other offers. But we have now heard from a number of sources that, second to getting paid, Brunson's main goal is to run his own show. Which may not be an opportunity that the Mavs can offer. So it looks like we might be wise to give his goal a high degree of importance in formulating views about JB's future as a Mav, either as a player or a trade asset. 

I think that, in an absolute sense, Pop would love to have JB. I don't know how that would work into their bigger longer-term plans. And I doubt that they will trade for him unless he indicates a willingness to stay there -- otherwise, he's just a rental. I don't know whether JB would feel that SA would provide him with the opportunity to make the Spurs his team, or even whether he considers SA a desirable situation in general. He might!

From what I read, he wants "his team". I look around the league and don't see many teams needing a PG, SA is as good as any team seeing as Murray doesn't really seem like a star in the making, he seems like a top end starter. Now, I don't see JB as a star either, more of a top end starter ceiling. That's where my thoughts ended with the 2 of them being able to together form a "our team" type of partnership, where if he stays here with Luka, I'm not sure that is possible. Either that or JB's presence gives them the ability to shop Murray.