(10-29-2022, 08:59 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: None of us 'know' if even that would have worked. I think Dallas clearly mishandled the Brunson situation, but the mistake was letting it get to the summer and assuming they could get something back from NY in a S&T. We simply have no idea if throwing more money at this would have worked. NY offered family and a team Brunson could call his own. That was never going to happen here.
Oh, and it wasn't just a little more money. The NY contract would have cost Dallas almost $100mm this season alone. People saying "If THJ is worth $19mm, then surely" is a false dichotomy. One bad contract (now unmovable) doesn't justify a second bad one. Brunson at $130mm in his DALLAS ROLE would have been a bad contract. Letting him go for nothing was a really bad move, but the mistake was not trading him the summer or at the TDL. Once it got to July, we had no control over the outcome.
The biggest mistake was not at least offering him the max extension last offseason. I'm not saying it was a no brainer and I don't know if he takes it (I think even then he wanted to get out from Luka shadow) but imagine if we went into this offseason with Brunson on a 12 mil contract.
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