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

[KillerLeft]

Develop a relationship with him in his camp during his one year tenure that would have granted that curtesy.

Right. Or, in lieu of that, be intuitive enough about your players to see this coming and dump his ass before it's a showdown with the life or death of your team's near future on the line. 

The bottom line for me is that if you can't keep your own hot commodity free agents, who you drafted and developed, then something at some point is wrong. Maybe it's the catering, for all I know. But if so, Cuban needs to fire the caterers (I'm being ridiculous to make a point). 

Like @"F Gump" reminds us often: Cuban is the bottom line.