Change has to come from Cuban

[KillerLeft]

While I agree that it will likely cost Cuban to get the final pieces of a championship contender, equating Brunson's walking to an MBT failure is a red herring.


Brunson had established himself as a good backup, then co-starter to Luka during the regular season, where he was considered trade bait early on. He was basically JAG until the opening playoff series against UTA where he had 3 excellent games against a defense that apparently couldn't stop anyone. Failure to sign a mid-season contract followed by his father getting the Knicks spot combined with the spurt of success in the playoffs and all of a sudden he's a near-max starting-caliber NBA point guard who is now too good to listen to Cuban's offer? He wanted a starting spot away from Luka's spotlight so he ran to the comfort zone of NYK's and protection of his fathers buddies. Good luck to him, but letting JB walk isn't what's wrong with DAL. It may even be positive in the longer run.

With respect, I believe the above to be a fair summation of the group think perception in this community, but not of the reality of Brunson's tenure here. 

I think it's pretty obvious that he was the team's second best player and very probable that he was THE leader of the team.

It's not "positive in the long run" when your second best player, someone YOU drafted (a great pick, btw) and groomed, is dying to get away from your team. It's an eye-brow raising thing that sends a pretty poor signal about what's to come, imho.