(01-24-2022, 06:14 PM)F Gump Wrote: JBs max extension starts at around 11.5. That's the cap hit in 2022. Future years would have raises.
In any event, offering that number/deal is a dead end and not worth endorsing, since he's not interested, apparently. Nor should he be. That's not a lot more than MLE money (which should start at ~10M this year).
I am not sure if that deal was/is on the table. As good as Brunson is playing in the regular season, there is always a question mark how he will work in the playoffs where teams might target him on defense and will have much more engaded defenses on the other end. Mavs could be perfectly well opportunistic here. If Brunson plays great in the playoffs, then no problem, we have a "star" and we pay him "20 per". If he is average or bad, the offer is a bit over MLE (or less if he was really bad) which might be best on the table for him. If he walks, it is not the end of the world since he wasn't that great anyway. As long as he doesn't have an extension, it is also easy to trade him.