Jalen Brunson signs $156M extension with Knicks; Gives up chance at 5-year $269M contract in 2025

[RickyGQ]

JT and JB didn’t leave any money on the table, and the championship team is coming back in full force. This whole “to keep the team together” from billionaires is trash asf. Who has that ever worked out for?

Boston will have to break that team up very soon. That second apron shyt is gonna hit them like a ton of bricks and that’s why the principle owner is getting the fukk out of dodge.

Respectfully, these are dumb takes

He’s not choosing between 2 different locations, so there is comparative gain to calculate. So if your argument is he’ll make up money in ‘endorsements’, he woulda got those same endorsements with his max deal….. Not to mention the ‘endorsements’ angle for big cities is outdated af. It’s not 1995 you don’t have to be in NY to maximize your celebrity That money gone

You’re doing the math wrong. Taking the max, having to trade Julius and/or Josh and not being able to replace them means you don’t win a chip. What would the championship endorsements in NYC look like vs being Melo in NYC?

 

[RickyGQ]

he's a goddamn fool. Aint no fukking way I'm giving a billionair a break to "make the team better". fuk that. To put it in perspective, if You're making $35 an hour at your job and the comes in to say, "you're our best worker, would you mind going down to $17 an hour so we can get more good workers?". . I'm against players taking pay cuts

Wrong. You’re making $35 an hour. You’re due to make $70 an hour. But if you take $50 an hour, we’ll be able to give the best workers on your team $50 an hour too and keep yall together. If you take $70, we will literally be forced to let them go, against even our will.

 

[Trojan 24]

And people are out here killing Bron and the Lakers for nepotism.

The Knicks are so rampant with nepotism that they straight up violating every rule. Rick Brunson getting 12ms a year? For what?

They got father/son/godfathers/agents running the whole joint.

Jalen just casually leaving 120ms on the table? You just know those nikkas threw him an absolute bag under the table too.

Ain’t no way they didn’t when they running their entire operation like the mob

If JJ hired Bronny to be his video coordinator for 5 million a year nobody would say shyt

 

[Organic Trees]

If he not trippin’ then why should we

 

[Canon]

Dont spread it amongst ur boys cuz they didnt do it like you did it...He was wildy underpaid on his initial contract and then willingly took less on the 2nd is just crazy to me...fukk the team,rings get all the bread you can....

his dad got paid as well and he doubles his salary

 

[Spidey Man]

Reading through this quickly and this thread don't make sense.

Everybody shytting on him because he left money on the table talking about what if an injury hit. If he didn't take the money now, and got hit by a car tomorrow, that contract that he would have gotten next year disappears.

 

[Consigliere]

The Knicks are the best story in the NBA.
Everything is lining up for them.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Smart of him too lock in that money now.. No one can’t predict the future and as we all saw when mofos waited to sign a bigger extension instead of locking in the money they end up getting up and that money is gone… ie boogie cousins

 

[Braman]

Boston will have to break that team up very soon. That second apron shyt is gonna hit them like a ton of bricks and that’s why the principle owner is getting the fukk out of dodge.



You’re doing the math wrong. Taking the max, having to trade Julius and/or Josh and not being able to replace them means you don’t win a chip. What would the championship endorsements in NYC look like vs being Melo in NYC?

They don’t ‘have’ to trade anybody. Thats not how the cap works. Teams can sign all their own players as long as they’re willing to pay the tax

And that’s where the conditioning comes in. Think about what you’re saying! It’s understandable and encouraged for a player to to sacrifice money, but you dont even consider a team doing it. You instinctively count that as off the table, non negotiable. ‘They’ll HAVE to trade them’

 

[RickyGQ]

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

He could easily have an Isiah Thomas trajectory. Should've took as much money as he could

Isiah aint even get to sniff a long term extension , Danny Ainge fukked bro over something awful… had IT been on another team putting up the numbers he did with the Celtics he would have def gotten a big contract.

 

[RickyGQ]

They don’t ‘have’ to trade anybody. Thats not how the cap works. Teams can sign all their own players as long as they’re willing to pay the tax

And that’s where the conditioning comes in. Think about what you’re saying! It’s understandable and encouraged for a player to to sacrifice money, but you dont even consider a team doing it. You instinctively count that as off the table, non negotiable. ‘They’ll HAVE to trade them’

Yea bro. They changed the rules to punish owners who were willing to pay the tax. Catch up. Boston’s going to be losing draft picks, won’t have the mid level, won’t be able to participate in the buyout market. Won’t have the vet min. The actual tax is going to be 4x heavier. They’re going to be in situations where the only trades they can make are trades that hurt them because they can’t take on more money in trades. They also can’t trade two for ones in any deals. It’s going to be significantly harder for them to stay competitive past next season.

Denver just let a key member of there team go for nothing cause they didn’t want that smoke.

Meanwhile, Brunson is allowing the Knicks to remain competitive for the next 3-4 season.

 

[staticshock]

The Knicks are the best story in the NBA.
Everything is lining up for them.

fukk the Knicks

 

[KnickstapeCity]

fukk the Knicks

 

[Egomaniacal1]

A good read and puts a lot of the numbers in their true context, he's only really giving up 37.1 million and the tradeoff is it keeps the Knicks competitive and all the huge money is coming with the tv rights deal and cap being raised up annually so he gonna be alright...article link--> Jalen Brunson contract extension FAQ: How much did Knicks star really leave on table, what move means for NY

He's viewing this a window. The Knicks prime is now into the next few years. After that if they don't get there then that means the Knicks made the wrong moves and their best players will be on the backside of their careers so might as well take the max money then, especially when it will be even more outrageous money coming later. Flexibility now when it matters to potentially put together a championship roster and trust the Knicks to take care of him later on(and probably his father too).