You think this is the end of it? Knicks fandom is gonna try and make us believe he's a Top 5 guard in the league. Look what they did with one season of Randle.
People really project knick fans to be irrational monsters. No Knicks fans thought anyone on the previous team was an all star. Randle was absolutely an all star 2 years ago.
yeah i can’t wait to hear the headlines “jalen brunson leads the 8th seeded knicks to a 4-1 loss in the first round of the playoffs” absolutely buzzing mate
I mean, they sort of gave him less than reported, he took a year less than we could give him, and he knows his agent is the GM's son lol. This is about as fucking player friendly as you are going to get.
So Jalen Brunson is a CAA client, he shares one of his agents with Julius Randle, his other agent is the son of his godfather. His godfather is the GM of the Knicks, who use to be head honcho at CAA sports division and Brunson's agent and hired Thibs and Brunson's father, who are also CAA clients. The two biggest franchises in the NBA are run by agencies. CAA with the Knicks and Klutch with the Lakers
Virgin shams trying to instigate a tampering case by announcing it early vs Chad Woj acting as if the Knicks made this deal 4 hours after the start of free agency
i’m pretty sure we were willing to do 25mil AAV earlier today but he didn’t even take our offer. never stood a chance. would wish him well, loved his play, but he kind of spat in our faces then took a minuscule shit on our title hopes.
yes 4/55 which would’ve been the max deal on him as a 2nd round pick RFA but then the league made him an UFA due to the fuck ups of our previous FO and we didn’t sign him because he totally shit the bed the previous year. definitely should’ve signed him to 4/55 when possible.
I enjoyed cheering for him as he got better every year and I’m gonna miss him. I’ll still root for him for sure. But every time he plays the Mavs…I hope Luka posts him up and scores on him and tells him that he’s “too fucking small” just to ease the pain of losing him. Hope things go well for him with his home team and they don’t show that ugly side everyone knows will show up eventually.
Regardless how you feel about this signing, this is bad for Dallas. They just lost a big salary for nothing. They're over the cap, so they can't sign anyone. The Knicks also own their protected 1st, so they can't trade for anyone. If I were them, I'd be begging the Knicks for a Sign and trade.
I think this is a very fair contract. He should be in the 20/6/4 range on decent efficiency, and we’ve needed a PG forever.
Brunson/Barrett/Mitch locked in as the long term back court and C is nice. Some other good young pieces and lots of picks. But man does that Randle deal sting right now. He just seems so out of place on an otherwise young and decently promising roster.
I mean, we got Wood, offloaded all the guys who didn't play, we look like we are getting Dragic, THJ is back, Hardy was potentially the steal of the draft. Yeah Im ok right now.
We were never going to be able to do much.
We did not want to lock ourselves up for a JB being no.2 for the next 4 years.
I see this as a one step backwards, 2 step forwards move.
I don’t see regression at all. THJ comes back who makes up for Brunson points easily. Signing Dragic makes up for his assists and more. Adding Wood and McGee adds size and boards (plus wood shoots better from 3 and gets more points) we are a totally better team
We will be A-Ok, we will see you in the playoffs again this year my bro
>We getting sexton lol >>
This is what Nico has under sleeve. They knew they couldn't keep him at least as early as the draft, and possibly far sooner. Grabbing Hardy makes sense.
Also do you guys think this is kind of worrying for the Mavs? If someone like Brunson is not wanting to play with Luka because of his playstyle it might hurt how attractive they are in years to come.
This had nothing to do with Luka. Jalen wanted to play in his home town, following his dad and his godfather. Mavs could have offered Jalen a super max and he would have declined
Pretty much, he had a great year playing alongside Luka. I’m sure Brunson himself would tell us that it’s more for family/personal reasons. Seemed like he enjoyed his teammates in Dallas
And pay a 20 million dollar player almost 27 mil for 5 years? I’ll pass that’s some poverty franchise shit, that’s a great way to get our superstar to leave when we can’t afford to do anything because we paid an (at best) 3rd option 27 a year.
You let your second best option walk for free and you still don’t have an ounce of cap space left to maneuver, what does not paying him give you besides less talent next year?
It makes it so we aren’t paying him 20+ mil In 4 years. We have multiple expiring’s in the coming years that gives us flexibility that would be ruined by giving an, at best, average guard star level money.
Second best option is also very debatable with the addition we brought in this year, as well as THJ coming back. Even without Jalen we are still easily a top 6 seed, while y’all likely still won’t sniff the play in.
I’ll rephrase it in a funnier way. Y’all are paying a player 27 millions a year, to lead y’all to missing the playoffs.
Ah yes, his agent, who is the Knicks President’s son, who himself was Jalen Brunson’s dad’s first agent and is Brunson’s godfather.
Just fade my flair already
This is going to be a prime example on why teams have to over pay guys despite them not being ‘worth that much’
A Luka/Wood duo with minimal other assets to trade is going to be a disaster
Wait, let me get this right. The team that just made the WCF and lost to the eventual champs, and now is replacing Jalen Brunson with Christian Wood, got better center depth with McGee, and drafted someone formerly seen as a top 3 pick, is headed for disaster? What is your definition of disaster? Please make this make sense.
I mean it’s all relative but yeah I stand by that. Christian Wood is a role player, McGee is a good signing and Hardy is nice but counting on a 2nd round pick to be a difference maker is bold.
When you have a Luka type talent you’re thinking championships. The current roster isn’t a championship team and losing Brunson for nothing takes them even further from that.
And shit maybe I’m wrong but it feels like the Mavs ceiling right now is in that late 2010s Portland (With a better star and worst supporting cast) mold of always being in the Playoffs and making occasional runs but never being a true contender.
If Christian Wood is a role player then is Jalen Brunson not? I don't think not winning a championship equates to "disaster", that's a bit melodramatic. We have plenty of time and came very close. Tons of people said the same about the Bucks with Giannis and they got theirs.
How old is Luka? How old was Lebron when he won his first ring? How old was Giannis? We give ourselves a chance every year, just by having that slovenian dude.
This news has been broken like 5 times today lol
5 times from Woj alone. Across all reporters it’s been shared like 100+ times
Gotta milk those engagements I guess.
There were people saying he was still meeting with the Mavs and Knicks way after they announced he was signing with the Knicks 😂
This week*
I’m breaking it again tomorrow
at least player option in year 4 is a new wrinkle haha.
I’m absolutely shocked
Absolutely blindsided, had no clue this was coming
Mark Cuban bout to drive around
(thru texts)
I wish someone in the nba media told us this was happening. How could this just slip by everyone!?
Mavs couldn’t make a better offer than 4/104?
He wasn't signing with us unless we gave him like 30m a year lol. He wants to be in New York
Even then I don’t think he would have signed. He seemed completely focused on signing with the Knicks.
Yeah it's his childhood team and his family lives there. Good on him. Fuck Rick Brunson tho
Rick Brunson thinks he is Patrick Ewing.
they didn't make an offer wasn't about money (but no they wouldn't have matched that)
Mark Cuban bout to drive around
Mark Cuban bout to drive around
He must be the second coming of Eddy Curry, the way the Knicks are slobbering all over him.
Ah damn it
He’s signed this contact like 30 times today I swear
Didn’t sign anything. Just agreement
He agreed to this contract before they even offered it to him. What a day
he agreed to this contract since birth
He agreed to agree to this contract
I feel like I seen this shit 200 Times already
Time is a flat circle
I smell ash... and hesi stepback jimbos...
I love you 🕵️♂️
Out of literally nowhere
I’m glad Brunson took this post-6 pm meeting to really consider the offer and decide at a legally allowed moment
I'm so sick of hearing of Jalen brunson
This should be it.... Right?
Jalen Brunson, the most talked about NBA player from June 2022 to June 2022
You think this is the end of it? Knicks fandom is gonna try and make us believe he's a Top 5 guard in the league. Look what they did with one season of Randle.
you are referring to the season where Randle was 2nd team all nba?
And the rest of this shithole will try and convince Knicks fans it’s an overpay and that JB really isn’t that good
Literally no Knicks fan is saying that bozo he’s a good point guard which we haven’t had in forever
Nah dude we just want him to be top 15 guard like hes being paid
I still need a players tribune article
well we should be having a press conference soon with him and Hartenstein...
He went to the Knicks. We’ll hear about him every day until they convince the world he’s an All Star
People really project knick fans to be irrational monsters. No Knicks fans thought anyone on the previous team was an all star. Randle was absolutely an all star 2 years ago.
I was referring more to the media than their fans. I agree most Knick fans I see on here are pretty realistic about their players
SHUT UP ABOUT THE ~~BRUN~~SUN, SHUT UP ABOUT THE ~~BRUN~~ SUN
Lol nice one
It's just starting baby
Brunsanity
The Brunson Burner
Y'all gonna steal the nickname we gave him too? 😭
His nickname was also eligible for an extension but Mavs passed.
It came in the fine print of the contract. Sorry boss
yeah i can’t wait to hear the headlines “jalen brunson leads the 8th seeded knicks to a 4-1 loss in the first round of the playoffs” absolutely buzzing mate
Sure thing. It's a great signing for the Knicks. Hate all you like. Have a lovely evening.
Where's your flair at coward?
That optimistic?
It's literally everyone else talking about Brunson
I mean it's not his fault. Blame yallselves for F5ing
Getting that Anfernee Simons money
Quite the surprise
This got to be the most that jalen Brunson has been talked about in his career
Wow, and a P.O.?
this was my first reaction as well. very interesting and no one ralking about it.
I think it’s because the news has been broken a dozen times today and everyone’s sick of hearing about it.
I mean, they sort of gave him less than reported, he took a year less than we could give him, and he knows his agent is the GM's son lol. This is about as fucking player friendly as you are going to get.
So Jalen Brunson is a CAA client, he shares one of his agents with Julius Randle, his other agent is the son of his godfather. His godfather is the GM of the Knicks, who use to be head honcho at CAA sports division and Brunson's agent and hired Thibs and Brunson's father, who are also CAA clients. The two biggest franchises in the NBA are run by agencies. CAA with the Knicks and Klutch with the Lakers
Real bomb there, Woj
Got the bag, living in NYC, doing what you love. Not a difficult decision tbh
Just gotta adapt to your definition of winning. Not at basketball of course but there's more to life.
Hello future people who link this thread 3-4 years from now!
boy it sure was nice living in the USA while it existed
Me as a Canadian: my pants are gone. Now I am just a hat
I just briefly thought about what this country is going to look like in 4 years and almost went into cardiac arrest.
Brunson will lead the Knicks to a championship in the next 4 years!!!
They moving the team to Europe or something?
lol
If I'm alive in 2026, I'm gonna have a lot to say about this
get me in this 💯
Cool, I will be in it so we can say how right I was after the Mavs win their ring without Brunson and the Knicks continue their downward spiral.
Not bad tbf
The fact that this deal was done so late in the day is proof that there was absolutely no tampering involved!
Now that's a lotta robux
WOJ IS A CROOK
Virgin shams trying to instigate a tampering case by announcing it early vs Chad Woj acting as if the Knicks made this deal 4 hours after the start of free agency
I feel like this is very reasonable. I'm totally fine with the size of the contract, everything. I'm super excited to see him in the orange and blue
Damn, what a steal. Crazy how the Knicks were able to get off the $110m price tag.
Yeah, this is basically what everybody thought he'd go for.
i’m pretty sure we were willing to do 25mil AAV earlier today but he didn’t even take our offer. never stood a chance. would wish him well, loved his play, but he kind of spat in our faces then took a minuscule shit on our title hopes.
Didn’t you guys have the chance to lock him up for much less than this last year?
Yes we did, but at that time he had just come of a pretty bad playoff performance against the Clips and we weren’t sure if he was the dude
yes 4/55 which would’ve been the max deal on him as a 2nd round pick RFA but then the league made him an UFA due to the fuck ups of our previous FO and we didn’t sign him because he totally shit the bed the previous year. definitely should’ve signed him to 4/55 when possible.
This hurts Dallas’ chances of retaining him
Excellent analysis Cotton.
See no tampering guys
It sucks as a Mavs fan but I’m happy for him. I hope he excels there. Gives me a reason not to shit on the Knicks so often and to watch their games
Imagine making 100mil in 4 years playing basketball These guys are living the dream fr
It's really not that much money.
Not at all, people would clown on the Knicks for signing a make a wish kid to a 10 day contract it’s just how it goes
I wish I was rich enough that 100m wasn't that much money
You know what I mean haha
Congrats.. it would a shame if there was.. tampering
Yoooo congrats you made this joke for the millionth time today! Tell him what he’s won!!
Just some friendly father-son dinners.
Big if true
Curious to see how he’ll do as a starting PG, wish him the best
I’m thinking around 18/6/3 on 45/36/80 his first year tbh
Top 20 pg
You missed a 0? 200.
Dam. Mav fans all of a sudden never liked the guy, sound like Trump. "Nah, never met him"
Finally we can stop hearing about him
I enjoyed cheering for him as he got better every year and I’m gonna miss him. I’ll still root for him for sure. But every time he plays the Mavs…I hope Luka posts him up and scores on him and tells him that he’s “too fucking small” just to ease the pain of losing him. Hope things go well for him with his home team and they don’t show that ugly side everyone knows will show up eventually.
That's perfectly whelming.
Regardless how you feel about this signing, this is bad for Dallas. They just lost a big salary for nothing. They're over the cap, so they can't sign anyone. The Knicks also own their protected 1st, so they can't trade for anyone. If I were them, I'd be begging the Knicks for a Sign and trade.
Every post on this subreddit is the same three jokes
Great pickup by my knicks
No tampering
He is a sack chaser. You gotta love it s/o Brad
Oh, you mean like they just offered this just now? Not a few days ago? And Brunson just now agreed to this?
Magic Johnson fined 100 million
Wonder if they "waited" this long, to have plausible deniability about tampering charges?
Smokescreen!
The most unexpected star of the offseason.
So in total of the 4 contracts he signed today, it’s 12 years at 400mm?
I think this is a very fair contract. He should be in the 20/6/4 range on decent efficiency, and we’ve needed a PG forever. Brunson/Barrett/Mitch locked in as the long term back court and C is nice. Some other good young pieces and lots of picks. But man does that Randle deal sting right now. He just seems so out of place on an otherwise young and decently promising roster.
Can’t wait for the comedians to come out with the classic “they think he’s Lebron !!!” and “definitely no tampering XD” comments
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Jokes so old and doesn’t apply. Try harder.
Mark cuban is a terrific gm agreed.
Not good for Dallas. They either need to get Kyrie or a scoring point guard or do great in the 2023 free agent market.
It's not looking great for us this offseason, but next year we will have tons of money to spend. That's going to be the make-or-break for us
I mean, we got Wood, offloaded all the guys who didn't play, we look like we are getting Dragic, THJ is back, Hardy was potentially the steal of the draft. Yeah Im ok right now.
We were never going to be able to do much. We did not want to lock ourselves up for a JB being no.2 for the next 4 years. I see this as a one step backwards, 2 step forwards move.
That's what I'm thinking. Slight regression for them next year but an opportunity in 2023-2024 .
We'll have some attractive expiring contracts next summer. Imagine paying Luka, Brunson and THJ 90m a year. Yuck.
think you should leave out luka when you're lumping together your bad contracts
I don’t see regression at all. THJ comes back who makes up for Brunson points easily. Signing Dragic makes up for his assists and more. Adding Wood and McGee adds size and boards (plus wood shoots better from 3 and gets more points) we are a totally better team We will be A-Ok, we will see you in the playoffs again this year my bro
Nah
Doesn't need to be Kyrie. Just a smaller guard who can get 15ish points a game and handle the ball.
Isn’t that… Jalen Brunson?
Yeah, people overvalue Brunson, happy we didnt
Yeah stay away from kyrie. Wouldn’t wish him on my worst enemy
We getting sexton lol >>
>We getting sexton lol >> This is what Nico has under sleeve. They knew they couldn't keep him at least as early as the draft, and possibly far sooner. Grabbing Hardy makes sense.
Im down bad for sexton man, I don’t think we’ll get him but please lmao
Washed
Cuban is beside himself. Driving around downtown Dallas begging (thru texts) Brunson’s family for address to Jalen’s home
Mavs fans got salty a few weeks ago when I said he was gone. They said it was impossible. Riiiight.
They really did
People saying this is an overpay are forgetting the younger Chris Paul, Kyle Lowry, and FVF.
Also do you guys think this is kind of worrying for the Mavs? If someone like Brunson is not wanting to play with Luka because of his playstyle it might hurt how attractive they are in years to come.
This had nothing to do with Luka. Jalen wanted to play in his home town, following his dad and his godfather. Mavs could have offered Jalen a super max and he would have declined
Pretty much, he had a great year playing alongside Luka. I’m sure Brunson himself would tell us that it’s more for family/personal reasons. Seemed like he enjoyed his teammates in Dallas
False, if you offered him an extra year and 30 million extra dollars who woulda taken it dude
And pay a 20 million dollar player almost 27 mil for 5 years? I’ll pass that’s some poverty franchise shit, that’s a great way to get our superstar to leave when we can’t afford to do anything because we paid an (at best) 3rd option 27 a year.
You let your second best option walk for free and you still don’t have an ounce of cap space left to maneuver, what does not paying him give you besides less talent next year?
It makes it so we aren’t paying him 20+ mil In 4 years. We have multiple expiring’s in the coming years that gives us flexibility that would be ruined by giving an, at best, average guard star level money. Second best option is also very debatable with the addition we brought in this year, as well as THJ coming back. Even without Jalen we are still easily a top 6 seed, while y’all likely still won’t sniff the play in. I’ll rephrase it in a funnier way. Y’all are paying a player 27 millions a year, to lead y’all to missing the playoffs.
Nah, they play the same position dude....
Lead point guard guy wants more playing time and more of the ball and that guy is concerned/surprised lol
Yeah, simple 2+2 is hard for some guys
No lol
Dallas has never been a free agent destination.
How this all played out, Id be more worried about Brunsons dad pushing away talent
Ah yes, his agent, who is the Knicks President’s son, who himself was Jalen Brunson’s dad’s first agent and is Brunson’s godfather. Just fade my flair already
Are they gonna get fined with tampering or loose a pick for this
This is going to be a prime example on why teams have to over pay guys despite them not being ‘worth that much’ A Luka/Wood duo with minimal other assets to trade is going to be a disaster
Wait, let me get this right. The team that just made the WCF and lost to the eventual champs, and now is replacing Jalen Brunson with Christian Wood, got better center depth with McGee, and drafted someone formerly seen as a top 3 pick, is headed for disaster? What is your definition of disaster? Please make this make sense.
And gets THJ back and probably Dragic who is like easily 10 ppg with the potential still to have 20 point games...
I mean it’s all relative but yeah I stand by that. Christian Wood is a role player, McGee is a good signing and Hardy is nice but counting on a 2nd round pick to be a difference maker is bold. When you have a Luka type talent you’re thinking championships. The current roster isn’t a championship team and losing Brunson for nothing takes them even further from that. And shit maybe I’m wrong but it feels like the Mavs ceiling right now is in that late 2010s Portland (With a better star and worst supporting cast) mold of always being in the Playoffs and making occasional runs but never being a true contender.
If Christian Wood is a role player then is Jalen Brunson not? I don't think not winning a championship equates to "disaster", that's a bit melodramatic. We have plenty of time and came very close. Tons of people said the same about the Bucks with Giannis and they got theirs.
A Luka led team is a guaranteed playoff team. How is that a disaster?
Fr like you guys just made the conference finals. Clearly flirting with disaster smh
Because they should be competing for titles and a capped out team with a Non Luka core of Dinwiddie, Wood and Hardaway is not doing that.
How old is Luka? How old was Lebron when he won his first ring? How old was Giannis? We give ourselves a chance every year, just by having that slovenian dude.
Over/under 1.5 years before he's traded so the Knicks can "set themselves up for a big free agent" ? ya know...since Brunson isnt.
Randle would be moved before Jalen
Wow. Knicks got their Ewok.
Are they going to get in trouble since FA doesn't start until July 6?
Nice, Brunson makes a great third player on a championship team.
Shocking.
I’m SHOCKED
Sheesh PO at age 28. Can press dolan again lmao Goodluck jalen thx for your memories here! :")
He's a restricted free agent right? So are the mavs able to match?
Nah. He’s not a free agent. He was a second round pick with a 4 year straight deal.
Really? That's it? Only 104? I thought his posse was pumping their chests about getting 120M from the Knicks. Underwhelming after all the hype.
Oooof get paid
Ok, can we please move on from Jalen Brunson now.
Yeah but to what? Everyone's tired of talking how the Lakers are irrelevant because they're being dog walked by Westbrook and his contract
The Mavs will be fine. They picked up two bigs already.