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

[KillerLeft]

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.

I don't need people to dislike Cuban. 

I don't need people to be sad Brunson is leaving - some people are ok with this because they didn't think highly of the player, which is fine, and others are just better at keeping the team's activities on a lower level of import in their lives than I. That's also fine. 

What's bothering me (not with you, specifically) is the refusal to acknowledge that - plainly, straight up - Dallas is about to let their 2nd best player walk immediately after the team got to the WCF. I would just hope that we could all be real about that, even if we're not going to dwell on it or be pissed, rather than search for rationalizations on why it might be a good thing. 

Life will go on, and the team will still be good. I don't think they'll be AS good, but that's debatable. What's not debatable is that this is NOT the outcome Dallas WANTED. It's NOT going to help them improve in the short term. It's NOT part of some plan. It's a failure. I would just like a little balance in how we deal with the facts around here, personally. Where our individual outlooks fall on the positive/negative meter regarding the future is a totally personal thing.