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

[Chicagojk]

Somehow Brunson is still underrated on this board… the second best player on a WCF team who averaged 21.6 PPG, standing 6’ tall, in his 4th year in the league, playing second fiddle to the highest usage player of all time. 

And the on court loss would be minor AT BEST?!?

Your supposed savior to replace him in Dinwiddie, playing some of the best ball of his life in his 8th year, 4th team, just averaged 14 while having a massive size, athletic, and experience advantage. 

Dragic, 36 years young, is a career 14 ppg scorer in the playoffs who just got 10 per game this year and for the record, is not on the Mavs roster, so saying ‘internal replacements’ and pointing to Dragic don’t help your argument.

The effort by some to minimize Brunson is why ‘others’ are pushing back so strongly and then getting called Truthers or Hysteria or …

Losing Jalen will be a huge setback.  Winning player.   Playing with Luka certainly helps hide some of his limitations.   But he has also found how to play with Luka.  This is more difficult especially if you like having the ball in your hands.   You may go 4-5 possessions where you don’t get a chance to dribble.  That can be tough to stay in rhythm.  And he does all this with great efficiency.   

Losing him will be such a self own.  Should have taken care of it well before this time.  We will see.