Throughout the Knicks recreation the opposite evening my spouse requested, “The place did Jalen Brunson come from?”
I had thought Brunson went to the New York Knicks in a commerce by which the Knicks ended up getting the higher deal. Once I went to see who he was traded for, I used to be amazed to see that he was truly not traded, the Dallas Mavericks simply didn’t need to pay him.
In researching, I discovered an interview he did with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson for his or her All The Smoke podcast:
“I wished to remain there, I believed I’d be there for a very long time, and I appreciated my position there. It’s humorous as a result of my agent was like, ‘You are able to do a lot, you may get extra, you may get extra.’ I’m saying, ‘Effectively, I need to be protected. I’m not making an attempt to gamble proper now. This isn’t one thing you actually gamble with if it’s on the market.’ However [the Mavericks] had been like, ‘We need to see the place we’re at by like 20, 25 video games into the season.’ We had been like, ‘All proper, properly, if you happen to’re not going to do it, I type of don’t need to do it till after the season. I’m not making an attempt to consider this [during the season]. So there was a interval the place Luka [Doncic] went out and I began to begin. I used to be enjoying very well, I believe I used to be averaging like 20 and like six, perhaps, no matter. It was about that 20-, 25-[game] mark. And so we went again, we’re like, ‘Hey, if the deal is there, we’re interested by it.’ Like, ‘I’ll do it, like proper now.’ Nonetheless, it was no. It wasn’t a tough no — it was identical to, ‘We need to see, we need to see.’”
Twice the Mavericks failed to supply him an extension. When the commerce deadline arrived, Brunson was stunned to see he nonetheless had a locker in Dallas. The truth is, they lastly put a four-year, $55 million supply to the guard. However it was too late.
“I used to be like, ‘No, I believe I’ve outgrown that now”
Brunson handed on the supply, wager on himself, and took a 4-year, $104 million contract with the New York Knicks, which now seems to be like a cut price.
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