In looking at all of the potential teams that wanted to trade for Kyrie, I find that Dallas is the flattest.
Since his deal was announced 5 minutes after the Free Agency period began, my speculation is he might have just wanted out of Dallas. Kyrie and Doncic are two of the most ball dominant players in the league, this should be interesting... STOMP
Cuban good luck, I hope you had your fingers crossed if you stipulated Kyrie would be given a new contract. Not even his fellow shark tank buddies would have made this deal.
I am referring to this, well before the NY noise grew loud over the season. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...as-mavericks-massive-free-agency-implications Dallas could have signed Brunson to a four-year extension for as much as $55.5 million before the season, but the Mavs didn't offer it then nor did they engage in negotiations with Brunson's representatives. He was coming off a disappointing first playoff series of his career, as former Mavs coach Rick Carlisle drastically cut Brunson's minutes in the final few games of the seven-game exit against the LA Clippers. "It sat with me all summer," Brunson said at the start of training camp. Nor were the Mavs willing to make that commitment midseason, when Brunson had transitioned from sixth man to starter and was thriving. An extension would have handcuffed the Mavs from including Brunson if a trade for a star materialized. Dallas offered the extension immediately after the Feb. 10 trade deadline, when Mavs forward Dorian Finney-Smith signed an identical deal. "I told him once the season is started, that's it," Rick Brunson says. "I told the Mavericks, 'Once the season is started, there's no contract talk,' and I went back against my word. In January, I thought he did enough where he deserved [the extension]. I said, 'Hey, take the money, man.' He wants security. He wants to live here. And they declined. "He didn't turn s--- down. Y'all declined first. When y'all came back to him, we said, 'Hey, we just want to finish out the season and go from there.'"
