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

[hakeemfaan]

Who is making false narratives? No one exactly knows what happened with JB, but we can look back at the data:

1) Under Donnie who was well connected to his family, JB was not signed to be a RFA in his last season.

2) Donnie leaves DAL in a cloud of dysfunction and conflict.

3) JB has a really poor playoff showing in RC's last year.

4) Nico comes in and does not sign JB to an extension.

5) JB starts the year playing very well. 

6) Nico tries to trade JB at the deadline (whispers being that everyone knows he is going to NYK).

7) Nico tries to sign JB to an extension after the TDL, but JB refuses to sign. 

8) On April 16, Rick Brunson says JB is going to re-sign in DAL.

9) In the first three games against UTA, JB puts up 30+ points and Mavs take a 2-1 lead.

10) On April 25, Rick Brunson goes to MacMahon and creates a whole narrative on how the Mavs have mistreated/undervalued his son. RB claims that DAL would not offer an extension in January (a fact that has not be corroborated by anyone else, a seemingly fictitious creation)

11) Less than six weeks later (early June), Rick Brunson is hired as assistant coach to NYK. 

12) On draft night (June 23), NYK makes VERY costly moves to get cap space.

13) News begins to leak that JB is heading to NYK and NYK is certain of that.

14) News leaks that NYK, DAL, and MIA will all get to pitch JB. MIA knows nothing about such a meeting.

15) DAL is refused to meet with JB. DAL is never allowed to make any contract offer to JB.

16) News leaks that NYK deal is done, exact money is known.

17) Woj then claims that DAL has given JB an offer (DAL adamantly refuses this) and JB is going to meet with NYK AFTER free agency starts.

18) Woj then says that JB is signing with NYK (for the exact numbers reported by Shams and others a day before).


False narratives? That would be Brunson's camp.

Kamm I am not talking about the sequence at the end. I am just saying that the narrative that Brunson was never that good or the NY wildly overpaid him or the other moves that the Mavs can make will more than adequately compensate for this loss are all false. 

It is not about what Brunson will do in NY or what he did against GS. It is about what a team that has Wood, Luka, and Jalen could have done.  The Mavs messed up this pooch and if it was just a last minute mess up due to things they could not control, that is fine. A mess up that dates back to a couple of years where they failed to properly evaluate their own talent on a team that doesn’t have a plethora of it and lock up that talent is inexcusable.  Then the fan base engaging in narratives to tear down that player once he is gone seems even worse.  We lost a solid player yesterday for nothing.  The only thing that can make it better is the league forcing the Knicks to give up a FRP for obvious tampering. I am not holding my breath on that though.