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

[omahen]

We need more playmaking not less. We need more long wings that can play, not less. 

Nico and team finance staff (didn't Nico bring in, like, the best of the best?), figure it out.

I am not sure if I see Brunson as a starter or a heavy minute bench player.  I said before the season, the Mavs need to find 25 plus minutes a game for him.  I didn't think Carlisle had this in his vision imo.   If they couldn't find these minutes, he wasn't going to want to stay here regardless how much he liked the team and city.   So far,the Mavs have found those minutes for him, plus having him in the closing unit in the majority of games.  With him being a UFA, I would certainly try him as a starter and see how it works.   The guy he would be replacing would not be a world beater.  Maybe it works great.  Maybe it doesn't and he can go back to a heavy minute bench player after you re-sign him.

I think the problem is way more complex than this, unless Cuban will be prepared to pay huge amount of tax. 

If you are keeping Brunson and DFS and want to maintain reasonably low tax (or even stay below tax line), you are effectively dumping some 20+ million of contracts from this team and replacing them with vet min guys. So basically despite how bad Powell and Bullock look on this team at this point, the team would be even less talented as it is (and dumping them might cost some assets). I guess no one is enthusiastic to just dump Maxi and I guess THJ wasn't signed to a four year deal just to be dumped a few months later (no GM will admit such a mistake, imho). If you keep Brunson and don't touch the KP/THJ/Luka, this core four players will likely take over 100 mil of cap space next season. A core that is currently in the play-in spot in a sort of weak, injury riddled West.

Sure this is a great and interesting topic to discuss, but it is far from simple imho. And as I said in the other thread, it has a lot of bad outcomes for Mavs. I think Mavs need a good TDL trade. A trade that would perhaps convince Cuban it is worth paying tax. In the end, if you want to contend this is inevitable as we can see with both LA teams, Nets, Milwaukee and GSW as some examples.