Shams: Jalen Brunson to New York on 4 year/$104m deal

[Handledatruth]

He does all the things that we loved seeing D-Rose do when he would show flashes during our last playoff run. Plus he's a better passer and shooter. I think he'll outperform the contract to be honest.

[HEZI]

Huge overpay. I like him but he isn’t worth the contract or the picks given up to sign him

Classic Knicks though

How isn't he worth the contract? That's slightly more than Malcolm Brogdon gets, and I expect a similar jump in production from him that Brogdon had when he left Milwaukee for Indiana.

Spencer Dinwiddie is getting $20 million per.

So in about 2 years he will become an unwanted contract after failing to take the Knicks anywhere. Sounds about right

[F N 11]

Easy guy to cheer for, should be reuniting with Mikal Bridges but oh well. Hopefully the beginning of a new era.

Would love Mikal!! I watched a lot of him at Nova.

[Appleshampoo]

Alan Hahn's comment on Shams tweet, "The fact that this is being reported an hour before players are even allowed to talk to teams suggests someone wants to nail the Knicks for tampering."

[robillionaire]

Easy guy to cheer for, should be reuniting with Mikal Bridges but oh well. Hopefully the beginning of a new era.

Would love Mikal!! I watched a lot of him at Nova.

Well we have Reddish, he’s like Mikal if you subtracted the talent

[3toheadmelo]

Read on Twitter

Here to hardy rotting in the G League…

Spoiler:

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[EnigmatiC]

Not a fan of this. Sure he is better than what we have but tying up that money into a guy who won't make much of a difference in terms of W/Ls is a mistake.

[NoDopeOnSundays]

Huge overpay. I like him but he isn’t worth the contract or the picks given up to sign him

Classic Knicks though

How isn't he worth the contract? That's slightly more than Malcolm Brogdon gets, and I expect a similar jump in production from him that Brogdon had when he left Milwaukee for Indiana.

Spencer Dinwiddie is getting $20 million per.

So in about 2 years he will become an unwanted contract after failing to take the Knicks anywhere. Sounds about right

Depends, is he going to tear his ACL like Dinwiddie, or be perpetually injured like Brogdon?


From a purely production standpoint he's nowhere close to being a contract overpay, especially compared to other PGs.

[cgmw]

Huge overpay. I like him but he isn’t worth the contract or the picks given up to sign him

Classic Knicks though

14th highest paid PG is far from an overpay.

Sure but even with Brunson we’re the 14th worst team in the league, so what are we doing signing another non-difference making vet to a $100m contract?

[robillionaire]

Alan Hahn's comment on Shams tweet, "The fact that this is being reported an hour before players are even allowed to talk to teams suggests someone wants to nail the Knicks for tampering."

It’s Cuban. He is a cry baby biatch who Dolan keeps obliterating in trades and moves and he’s throwing a tantrum

[Chanel Bomber]

Knicks will end the night with as many first-round draft picks as the Nets

[F N 11]

When Bradley Beal is getting 50 million, let me say that again 50 million per year, how’s 25 mil an overpay for anyone

They still think 20 the max. Black Air Force types mainly.

Cap went up plus Inflation is 8%.

[NoDopeOnSundays]

Huge overpay. I like him but he isn’t worth the contract or the picks given up to sign him

Classic Knicks though

14th highest paid PG is far from an overpay.

Sure but even with Brunson we’re the 14th worst team in the league, so what are we doing signing another non-difference making vet to a $100m contract?

Vet? He's 25 and this was his first season as a starter.

[cgmw]

Leon better hurry up and trade all these assets before sanctions hit.

[NoLayupRule]

welp

we got our man i guess

feels underwhelming which is why it might be our best signing in years

[robillionaire]

Players are going to start coming to play for the Knicks again so they can be sure their mistresses can get abortions if they need one Brunson was ready to get out of texistan

[HerSports85]

Honestly got a good feeling about Brunson. He's not my first choice, but he's very solid. I'm starting to actually like it. Will love it for under 20 mil.

[robillionaire]

Huge overpay. I like him but he isn’t worth the contract or the picks given up to sign him

Classic Knicks though

How isn't he worth the contract? That's slightly more than Malcolm Brogdon gets, and I expect a similar jump in production from him that Brogdon had when he left Milwaukee for Indiana.

Spencer Dinwiddie is getting $20 million per.

Yeah some idiots gave Fournier 19M a year it’s a good deal

[cgmw]

14th highest paid PG is far from an overpay.

Sure but even with Brunson we’re the 14th worst team in the league, so what are we doing signing another non-difference making vet to a $100m contract?

Vet? He's 25 and this was his first season as a starter.

Are you serious rn?

Brunson is a non-rookie contract player who’s now making 20% of the entire salary cap. Brunson + Randle + Fournier = >50% of the entire cap.

Any sane team would never have signed 25 year old veteran Julius Randle after being bad in 2019, just as any sane team would have purged all the veteran contracts to start IQ/Obi in 2022-23.

This is exactly the same thing. It’s the Steve Mills plan. Which was always just the Isiah plan. I like Brunson, but it is what it is and there’s very little hope of competing for championships at any point during the remainder of Brunson’s likely career.

[Mills Mustache]

I like it.
A bit of an overpay, but the most talented person we’ve gotten to come here in a while.