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

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Do the incentives and trade kicker not help speak to the opposite? Basically says if we do trade you there is as good a reason as any team would trade you with a raising salary, you just get paid well to do it. Think of it this way, we’re giving him a signing bonus to back pay his previous worth. Our benefit to that is we can possibly get you better teammates to help push you over the hump as yours snd THJ’s age!

With all the reports that have come out and how we've handled Jalen's contract situation in the past, I'd just be careful.  I loved getting yearly raises at work and it's why I do that for my employees now.  The money is a different stratosphere but Jalen's still human.  Maybe he doesn't look at it this way but a descending structure makes you easier to trade with every year that passes.  While I love the descending structure, my offer to Jalen would be ascending, with a trade kicker and give him a player option on the final year of the deal.