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

[Scott41theMavs]

Adding to the Brunson pros list...

Hasn't it been said that he us one of the leading voices in the lockerroom?

So he's a leader too.

I'm not an x's and o's guy...the playoffs are a different beast...but it seems like Luka and Brunson sharing pg duties or Luka doing the Lebron/kwahi thing seems reasonable.  Would this stunt Lukas growth due to usage going down?  Is Luka not ok giving up some usage?  Of course Luka would have green light to take over in Playoffs if Jalen wasn't getting it done.

I don't know...unless jalen wants his own team...it's hard to let this talent walk.  He seems to meet and surpass the eye test ability wise.  Not saying Ben Simmons and Kwahi Leonard's of the world can't make him look below average...but he is torching the league right now

I have some sense that Luka might feel a little threatened at the idea of a loss of usage, after two years of being 1st team NBA etc. I think it could be possible to establish a good non-heliocentric offense around Luka, KP, and Brunson. It's just whether this coach is smart enough to devise it and get all three of them to buy in. 

I could quote myself as saying many times that Luka and KP don't fit together. That doesn't have to be the case, but I think that the bottom line is that Luka for whatever reason isn't that interested in KP being successful, and KP is too insistent on being successful the way he wants to - whether that works on the offensive end given his physical gifts and the nature of the 2020s game or no.