12-03-2022, 11:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-03-2022, 11:34 AM by KillerLeft.)
(12-03-2022, 11:25 AM)Kammrath Wrote: 2) Cuban in the 11th hour realized that losing JB for nothing would be a disaster from an asset standpoint and therefore was willing to go higher, but at that point money wasn't going to change JB's mind.
What's more, the reporting around this, at the time, was inconsistent to the point where I was never positive this "meeting" wasn't just someone's misunderstanding of the situation. The reporting of the meeting came after people had stared hinting that he had chosen NY. What you're interpreting as "Brunson decided not to have the meeting" always seemed to me at the time like Brunson's camp saying "Meeting? What are these people talking about? We didn't set up any meetings!"
But, that doesn't even matter. If Cuban truly tried to get a meeting for the purpose of increasing his offer to go North of NY's and that meeting was denied, we would 100% have been informed of this, subtly or overtly. Instead, it was barely news around here and the Mavs wanted to say as little about the situation as possible.