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

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How do you know he didn't? It's clear they wanted Brunson back, so it wasn't that they didn't believe the player was a fit or the right guy to invest in. They simply backed off of the sticker price. 

The coach AND general manager BOTH went to bat for Steve Nash back in the day. Did it matter?

Don't get me wrong. I can't stand Cuban for the reasons you laid out. They are many. Kidd may have tried to keep him. I don't have the answers to that. I just have a feeling that the group as a whole didn't believe enough to pay Knick money for JB. There are just a lot of pieces we don't have info for.

I feel like the mistake was made a year ago. This is just the fallout of that. They should have either put him on a 4/$55 contract when they had the chance or traded him at the deadline.