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So would you have been happy with the return that the Knicks were offering in return for Brunson SNT (a bunch of crap salary matches and no draft compensation)?

“Happy” is a relative term. 

Not as happy as I’d have been if Cuban would’ve ponied up the max and convinced him to stay, but happier than I am knowing he left for nothing. 

For a while, the point was made that the Western Conference Finals run experience was worth more for the team than what they would have gotten in trade at the deadline, even if they knew Brunson was leaving. I can see the logic, but at this point the team is so different than it was then that I am not sure the experience really carries over.

If, as you seem convinced, there was no keeping Brunson by the middle of that year (I honestly believe a max offer would have done it, but don’t know definitively), then YES, I move him at the deadline for whatever the best offer out there was.