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

[jdb152]

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 …

It isn't minimization. It's an honest accounting of the situation. I love JB. I do not want him to leave. We are better with him than without. Still, it won't be the end of the world, especially if this thing pushes to 30/per. DAL is fine in the short term. It's the mid to longer term where this loss would become problematic. Even then we're looking at a time when contracts start coming off the books. I don't see the situation as ideal but it isn't doom either.