Kamm, what's wrong is that you keep conveniently leaving out important additional words, that say otherwise. It's not being honest when you say this is EXACTLY what Skin said and then leave out part of it that is very relevant (especially when the parts omitted point to something different).
I would prefer your pov is correct. But use the WHOLE paragraph of what Skin said, and let it speak for what it says as a whole. I can cherry-pick just like you did, but select different words, and focus only on them, and then it says something different.
Here, use this quote instead, and where are we? "They had a second plan in which if they lose Jalen, we've got an alternate plan. Now that may have been muddied by the Kevin Durant news, but they wanted to get assets for Jalen Brunson. They didn't want to pay him more than 22. They knew that they were probably going to lose him. And it sucks. It sucks to lose an asset."
If there was a plan B, I think it was tied to a Brunson SNT in which they would use that foundation to acquire another asset(s), not from NY. Obviously that ship has sailed, if that was their plan.
I would prefer your pov is correct. But use the WHOLE paragraph of what Skin said, and let it speak for what it says as a whole. I can cherry-pick just like you did, but select different words, and focus only on them, and then it says something different.
Here, use this quote instead, and where are we? "They had a second plan in which if they lose Jalen, we've got an alternate plan. Now that may have been muddied by the Kevin Durant news, but they wanted to get assets for Jalen Brunson. They didn't want to pay him more than 22. They knew that they were probably going to lose him. And it sucks. It sucks to lose an asset."
If there was a plan B, I think it was tied to a Brunson SNT in which they would use that foundation to acquire another asset(s), not from NY. Obviously that ship has sailed, if that was their plan.
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