05-04-2022, 06:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-04-2022, 06:41 PM by Jason Terry.)
(05-04-2022, 07:21 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Beat me to it. I think the most likely path to Gobert would be using Brunson's outgoing S&T to NY as part of the salary. We need to get to $30.5mm in outgoing and Brunson can count $10-$13 million of that. Add THJ (or Maxi and Bullock) and we've hit the mark. From there, add our 2025 pick and some of the assets NY is giving up for Brunson (our 23 pick with protections lifted and enough players to match Brunson's incoming salary...probably includes Noel or Robinson and some of their youngsters). Depending on which NY players we are talking about, we may be starting to get there. If Robinson is included, Utah would need to end up under the Apron, but I think that is doable. You don't get a top 20 player, even an overpaid one, without feeling some pain.Using Brunson to get someone is definitely on the table. If it’s Gobert-Brunson though then NYK should be the one paying the full freight. Brunson just showed last couple weeks he’s more valuable. The contracts each will have make Brunson considerably more valuable, IMO. NYK should pay Utah and give us an asset to get Brunson or it doesn’t make sense for Mavs and we walk away. Not only that but we get to dump Bertans as well