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

[ItsGoTime]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I assumed (wrongly) that the Mavs would be competent enough to EITHER trade Brunson at the deadline OR offer the contract it would take to retain his services into the future. 

When the deadline came and went with him on the team, I never dreamed for a second they'd be incompetent enough to allow this third, dark outcome to transpire. 

And, I don't understand all of the chest thumping going on. We've read page after page of sign and trade possibilities which, while entertaining and from impressively knowledgeable and creative writers, aren't actually what seems likely to happen. So, what was the point of those? 

NOBODY was saying "I think the Mavs are going to keep Brunson through the deadline and then allow him to bail on the team with nothing, not even minor assets, coming back. That will be fine." I don't think ANY of us were anything close to "right" about this.

For me, it’s not about chest thumping. It’s an attempt to alter the mindset of the reader to either read and react to what is being said (without you adding your own words to the thought) or, if you don’t understand, ask unassuming questions. I think disagreeing with DS’s thoughts as written would have been fine. Calling him a JB hater for thinking this outcome could have happened… not so much.


Assumption is so rampant on social media, there’s no need to bring it here!