BRUNSON BURNER: to NYK for 4yrs/$104M (no SnT) | NYK docked 2025 2nd for tampering

[Jason Terry]

When Kevin Durant left the Warriors, they could have just let him leave for air and saved a massive amount of money. That would have been the Cuban thing. Instead they took on the overpaid contract of D'Angelo Russell. Was he the right player for the Warriors? Absolutely not. They paid a huge amount of luxury tax for this ill-fitting player, later turning him into the even more massive contract of Andrew Wiggins. Many people mocked them for this, including me. Well not much laughing about that now. The Warriors did this because they're a smart franchise, because they recognize you don't just lose assets for nothing, not even "overpaid" ones who don't fit.

In contrast, the Mavs show no recognition of what the proper values of players are whatsoever. They offer unconditional, massive contracts to unproven players. They wildly overpay culture guys who would be 3rd-stringers on any other team. And they lose values rotation players for nothing because "Oh no, we can't overpay him!" The Mavs are nothing but a three-ring circus franchise, and Mark Cuban is the entire fucking clown car.

We used to have a competitive advantage at the owner position. Now we clearly have a competitive disadvantage at the owner position. Mark couldn’t even manage a Dairy Queen without there being some sort of sexual assault going on. If we ever win another championship it will be in spite of him