05-31-2022, 07:58 PM
(05-31-2022, 07:34 PM)Jmaciscool Wrote: I may be misremembering, but I thought there was a max they could offer using an extension and brunson would be able to make way more on the open market (even before his playoff surge).
I think the real mistake was giving him a contract without the usual option that would allow him to be a RFA this season instead of a UFA.
At least, that's what my (often faulty) memory is telling me.
4 years $55M was the max they could give. Would that have been enough? Since Dallas never made an offer until after the trade deadline, we can only speculate. I think he would have accepted it at the beginning of the year and Rick Brunson was apparently still interested in January.
But I completely agree it was a mistake not to include the team option and make him a RFA after 3 years. Between that and the extension, they really had to work hard to botch this one.