FA: JaVale McGee 3yrs/$17.2M to DAL | will indeed start at center

[dirkfansince1998]

IMO that’s a bit unfair. 

This is normal human psychology. You want to buy something. If it is slightly beyond what you want to pay for it, you first think it is still ok. Then when decision time arrives you start thinking more about the money you are going to lay down and focus on the negatives. Then when you decide to not buy it all you rationalize it away convincing yourself that it was never good at all. 

@"cow" might be correct that the Mavs might have needed 30 mill per year to get Jalen to change his mind after they blew their chances for more than two years now to get him lower.  That’s fine. However as it stands a 4/104 that the Knicks got him at is a pretty solid deal given his age, skill set, productivity, and work ethic. He didn’t give us the chance at the end to make the same offer. If he did that salary is definitely not a wild overpay but any means.  Maybe a slight but I don’t see the Knicks or any team who would have given Brunson that contract having regrets down the road.  He is a solid player and that’s what you have to pay.

My psychology reference would be a child asking for a new toy. Not getting it. Throwing a tantrum. Suddenly not wanting it in the first place. I guess that´s human nature as well.
It is pretty obvious why the narrative changed. And it has nothing to do with Brunson´s level of play or the contract size.
Maybe I should apologize because I singled out @"SleepingHero" but it couldn´t be more obvious that the amount of "critical" posts sky rocketed when the rumors that mentioned the Knicks as his likely destination appeared.