2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[Tyler]

They were available at the TDL, and he suspect they will be on the table in the summer.  He expects Brunson to be a target.  He thinks part of what NY was trying to do at the TDL was to create cap space for Brunson.

When I first read this quote, my initial reaction was not "NY can definitely create space for Brunson this summer" but "NY already tried to create space for Brunson and failed." 

With no way to compete with the Mavs' Bird rights and less cap flexibility than the Pistons, NY's trade leverage almost wholly depends on the assumption that Brunson would rather play with them than with Dallas or Detroit. I think that's a highly questionable assumption.