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

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And any acceptance of the Mavericks’ version of events—that they were somehow not given the chance to negotiate with a player on their roster—leads down corridors that make the team look bad.

Free agency is an outcomes business, which means none of this process, however opaque or flawed, would have mattered had Dallas convinced Brunson to stay. But it couldn’t, and so the old scabs get re-opened. The Jalen Brunson saga will fester alongside the Kemba Walker saga, the DeAndre Jordan saga, the Dwight Howard saga, the Deron Williams saga, the LaMarcus Aldridge saga, the Tyson Chandler saga, the Steve Nash saga, and every other free-agent saga in what’s become a veritable anthology.

Each of them traces back to the Mavericks’ original sin: the perpetual mismanagement of their own resources as they chase—and inevitably miss out on—the big score.

https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2022/07...mavericks/