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

[Not an evil robot]

1) Less than 48 hours ago I wrote about the Mavs failure to tank properly: "Terrible, terrible, terrible stuff by the MBT from 2015-2020. I blame RC for not losing some key, key games that could have changed the direction of the franchise AND Donnie/Cuban for not stockpiling picks and instead relentlessly trying to get to the playoffs when the writing was on the wall." So it 100% infactual that I (as you said inaccurately), "ALWAYS, without fail, you try to paint their messes as impossible to avoid, or as unfair, or as unknowable." That is 100% false as proved by something I said in the last couple days. 

2) I have read your points that you have been restating in multiple threads. I find them completely uncompelling. I don't see the "freebie" as necessarily desirable to the Mavs nor to NYK. Both teams have desires and plans for what they are doing this summer and in the years ahead, plans we cannot even begin to guess at with any level of accuracy. Those "freebies" may fall completely outside of something they want. All it takes is for one of the two teams to say they are not interested and it is over. AND these two teams are in the midst of fighting over a free agent where tampering is clearly involved. There are emotions involved on both sides certainly. So neither side may desire to do any more favors for the other when they do not want the "freebie" in the first place. 

3) All I was attempting to do with my comment about "smartest guy in the room" was to point out the "pot calling the kettle black" situation going on. You constantly attack Cuban's arrogance in this forum. Fine, he may be arrogant because he thinks his way is clearly the only right way. That might be true. But note that in this instance you are doing the exact same thing. There isn't an ounce of humility or admission that what you are seeing here might not be the smartest and most desirable path. And that is doing so from your couch, where you have zero inside information about what the Mavs are actually planning and desiring. If you worked for the Mavs front office that would be very different because you would have access to knowledge and details we don't have as fans. But we are just fans. Our knowledge is incredibly limited. We need the humility to see that. There is so much we simply do not know.

4) You could be right in all this. I just don't think we have enough to know for sure. The failure to execute a SnT might be a terrible sign of things to come. Could be. But I don't think we can be certain.

I’m far more a lurker than poster so take this for what it’s worth, but you dig your heels in on very odd takes; a yogi would have a hard time contorting to dodge the straight forward mistakes by the Mavs. I won’t pretend to be a cap expert, but if there’s a win-win outcome on the table as FGump describes you’d expect a closer to close it. Sure, maybe the Knicks are crazy and/or spiteful enough to turn down a free voucher that costs them nothing. But if the possibilities are the other guys acting irrationally or our guys (further) bungling a situation… and we’re only in this scenario because they already bungled it before…