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

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If Brunson wants to leave there are options to get him to New York via S&T

Burks + Mitchell S&T $12.5 million --> Dallas

Brunson S&T $25 million --> New York

That breaks all sorts of trade rules, since both JB and Mitchell would be base year restricted. Doesn't match either way. Bobby Marks noted very recently about this very sort of idea (a DAL-NY swap involving both Robinson and Brunson) that he has NEVER seen big raise snt players swapped for each other, because satisfying the match with a base year obstacle on both sides is virtually impossible.

And as we have discussed many times here, if the Mavs keep Brunson (or, sign-and-trade him with equivalent salary coming back), the Mavs ability to accept a player via SNT will be virtually impossible, as they will be far over the 155M apron.