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

[Dundalis]

Been reading all the posts from the last 24 hours and just thought I'd put my random, uninformed dirty dozen comments out there...

1. FWIW, I've been in the "$25M/yr is too much camp" for most of the last week. I'm still (mostly) there, but hate losing 3-4 years of investment for nothing.
   
2. This is all Kidd's fault. If he hadn't promised to get JB paid we wouldn't be in this predicament. 
   
3. If we can get JB to stay for $22-25M over 5 years, it will feel a lot less painful in year 4 than it does today. Especially if there is a Larry O on the shelf by then. Not sure the MBT is on board with that.
   
4. NYK have cleared cap space to take in JB without any SnT, which itself is suspicious for tampering.
   
5. I'm interested in the Miami addition to the talks. Maybe it's a smokescreen, but maybe Pat is trying to eliminate another potential rival.
   
6. Miami would HAVE to do an SnT, correct?
   
7. The announced meetings on Thursday are intriguing. I hope DAL gets the last meeting so they can respond to whatever he's heard. 
   
8. If the meetings are just a fig leaf for tampering charges, then DAL should get some compensation from NYK for participating if JB signs there. Maybe do an SnT with just a trade exception back? Maybe remove the conditions on the 2023 FRP? Why not both? 
   
9. I think JB is a great teammate and an asset to the Mavs, but this is Luka's team, and you know what they say..."if you are not the lead dog, the view never changes." So if JB thinks he wants to be the big dog, it's not going to be in DAL.
   
10. I don't know why DAL didn't sign JB up last summer, other than he got smoked by LACs and everyone was wondering if he could bring enough value to be worth even $12-15M. Hindsight being 20/20.
    
11. JB is going to get paid because of a combination of 1) 3 playoff games against UTA and 2) NYKs are desperate to at least look like they are trying to build a team. Personally, I think they'll go something like 32-50 next season, the shine will be off and the NY media will be sharpening knives.
    
12. All that said, there is a certain perverse pleasure at keeping JB and kicking NYKs in the "Gortats".
    

Dallas never had any interest in JB being here long term, signed or not signed. He is the first piece dangled in any trade talks, confirmation that he was offered in the package of picks to try and get Haliburton, just about confirms it IMO. If they played their cards right, they have a very appetising JB on an attractive contract that they move the first opportunity they get. They stuffed that up, but bottom line is, I don't think anyone at the Mavs wanted JB here long term, they will just wished they had locked him up sooner and cheaper so they could be at the table for deals for better players than they will now.

It was a bad situation the Mavs put themselves in, but they lost a trade asset and not a long term piece plain and simple IMO. JB was never going to stay in Dallas one way or the other.