TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[StrandedOnBeauboisHill]

Aren't Rose and the Brunson family pretty close?  I wonder if it's as simple as Rose doing them a solid by ensuring that Brunson does get paid by floating that Brunson is the target while actually looking at someone else (Mitchell, Kyrie, etc).  If Knicks then get that person then NY media celebrates how the Knicks were able to get a "better" player than Brunson, Brunson gets paid like he deserves, NY and Dallas both get the players they want, and everyone leaves happy.

This is my hope as well.

I agree with @"F Gump" that the way the national narrative jumped all over it like it's a foregone conclusion is silly but I don't disagree that Brunson is the obvious name that they would be going after.  I would have felt a lot better if they just grabbed those three protected picks and not used one to simply dump Kemba because it does signal SOMETHING.

My only real concern is that Brunson wants the ball in his hands more and that will never happen here and he knows it.  He has the fullest belief in himself and I could honestly see him believing that he can lead this Knicks team to the promised land so no matter how much WE think the Knicks pitch is dumb, all that matters is what HE thinks about it.