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

[DanSchwartzgan]

Guys on the Ticket made a good point about the sequence of events post January.   If JB was willing to reach out to the Mavs begging to sign a 4/55 or 5/55 contract...why were all these scouts at the Mavs game with Rick Brunson sitting with Leon supposedly just 2 months later?

Seems like Jb's family has known that Knicks would be offering far more for his services way before January.   I mean...JB's legal God Father is running the Knicks and that guys son is JB's agent.  Why would JB be begging Mavs for the 4/55 or 5/55?  It doesnt add up.

Jake(?) from the Ticket thinks Rick Brunson is lying about the extension story.   

As early as December the $80mm number was floating around and it was clear by then Brunson would make at least that much.  So, no way he takes the $55mm.  Yeah, I think Rick is lying.  No one wants to be the bad guy and sometimes you have to invent things so you can be the victim and the other party can be the bad guy.  What he said and she said from January on is of no interest to me as it was never going to happen.

To me, the more interesting question is whether Dallas offered or should have offered the deal before the season.